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DNA testing...

posted 18 years ago by benshinobi
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Somebody help me out, since I missed the first 15 minutes and may have missed something crucial...
How precisely did the girl's real parents (the redheads) know she was their daughter without any DNA testing? I mean, maybe I watch too much SVU or something but shouldn't that be the first step? Or, if they had the birth certificate, why didn't they simply match up fingerprints? Or do fingerprints have a tendency to change in 13 years? ;}
Because she has red hair, lives nearby, and has mysterious origins and a strong suspicion, they just take it as read (red? red hair? get it?) that she's their daughter? Perhaps they clipped out a scene for TV, but I can't recall a single scene that offered any conclusive proof that she was truly their daughter! While they're getting on her for not being a good sport and embracing her new (old?) family, they may have had the wrong girl all along! Who came up with this plot? A fifth-grader?
All right, end of harangue.

[–] Book_Lover 18 years ago

The other adults (not the girl's real parents) would know if it was her in the pictrue. You missed a big scence: the girl found the dress that she was wearing the day she was kidnapped. It was the same dress that she (as a little girl) was wearing in the picutre that was put on the milk carton. I would guess that they would do a DNA test. They never show a DNA test being done, but you would think they would. It wouldn't make since even in the world of TV if they didn't do a DNA test. In the books it was said that they had proof that the girl belonged to the redheaded family. I hope that helps. Have a nice day.

Book_Lover

[–] suessanderson 18 years ago

The picture that was on the milk carton was taken the day that Hannah gave janie to the Jessmon's, and they would remeber what she looked like then, so it was certain that she was the gilr on the carton. And they had the dress upstairs. BUt, that shouldn't be enough proff for the Sands's. They wouldn't have just gone with the word of what they think is their daughter's "Kidnappers.:"

[–] JosieCashew 18 years ago

She lived two states away in the book. Did she live nearby in the movie? I can't remember.

[–] suessanderson 18 years ago

I think that in the movie she lived maybe in the next state over, or possibly the same stae. I can't rember, I only saw the movie a coupple of years ago.

[–] arorashadow_2003 18 years ago

Please remeber these books we're written in the early 90's This book was first published in 1990. DNA testing wasn't as well known as it is now. Just like in the case of Adam Walsh.

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[–] dancequeen407 17 years ago

Maybe it wasn't as well known, but you'd think it would cross the mind sof the lawyers and FBI agents and detectives who were handling the case.