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Breakthrough as alleged serial rapist caught
- On February 11, NSW Police arrested Robert Wayne Kwan, 77, in South Kempsey and charged him with multiple offences including five counts of sexual intercourse without consent; bail was refused and he will appear in court today.
- In 2022, State Crime Command's Sex Crimes Squad began a review of historic sexual-assault cases to assess suitability for emerging forensic technologies including forensic investigative genetic genealogy .
- Victims in the linked cases were aged 11, 16, and 26 when the assaults occurred in Glendenning, Kanahooka, and Dubbo, with DNA evidence reanalyzed to link the incidents.
- Police described the arrest as a NSW-first and urged the public to opt in on genealogy websites, with Detective Superintendent Jayne Doherty calling it a historic moment for investigators.
- Using FIGG, which compares hundreds of thousands of genetic markers against GEDmatch PRO and FamilyTreeDNA, investigators tracked familial matches similar to those used to identify Joseph James DeAngelo, 'Golden State Killer'.
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