A Peninsula landlord thinks she may have found a new way to get her tenants to pick up after their pets: DNA testing of dog poop.
Mary Michaels, who manages the Pinewood Apartments in Redwood City, said she is fed up with tenants not cleaning up after their dogs while using communal areas outside the building.
“People aren’t responsible for their pets,” Michaels said. “This is an opportunity to weed out the bad apples and find out who these people are.”
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San Mateo County’s forensics lab is bringing in some extra help for its DNA-analysis team, hoping to find that speck of blood or drop of saliva that could crack an unsolved cold case.
Authorities say newly received funding from a federal grant will help the county’s crime lab cut down on a backlog of 460 cases awaiting DNA analysis, some of which are crimes committed decades ago.
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If you watch too many crime shows, you may have the impression that if a woman is raped at midnight, the DNA test results are back the next morning.
Not so in San Francisco, where police might not even pick up a rape kit from the hospital for nearly a week, and the subsequent DNA test can take months to complete.
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It took 11 months, but the DNA of infamous “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez has finally been retested, allowing police to close the case of the 1984 murder of a 9-year-old girl in the Tenderloin.
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