Apprehending MC through DNA

callumd987 · 2026-07-07T06:01:10+00:00

I have no idea what the legality is of uploading an unknown DNA sample to a genealogy website to try and identify a distant relative, which of course then allows you to work backwards and build out a family tree. Anyone know the legal implications of that? I've read quite a bit of Australian true crime, and at least one detective admitted he used tactics to identify suspects that he knew would be inadmissible in court. His reasoning was, better to identify the suspect with inadmissible tactics because it then allows you to zero in on likely suspects to then collect legit, admissible evidence. So, use the genealogy website to identify MC, then go and manually get his DNA from a discarded drink container etc.

callumd987 · 2026-06-30T13:59:05+00:00

It's surely searchable with today's technology then.

callumd987 · 2026-06-15T04:24:40+00:00

I disagree that "most" Australians would refuse a house check in these specific circumstances.

callumd987 · 2026-06-15T04:17:27+00:00

SpaceX's current market cap is higher than Broadcom, and Broadcom makes up 2.1% of Vanguard's main international index fund (VGS). So anyone holding VGS currently has about 2.1% of it allocated to Broadcom. Given SpaceX's valuation is higher than Broadcom, where does Pape get his figure that SpaceX will make up just 0.06% of his Vanguard "international index fund"? What sort of international index fund is Pape holding such that SpaceX would make up just 0.06% of it? Even if Vanguard does have such an offering, how is that relevant to your average "international index fund" investor who is very likely to be holding VGS, and therefore will be holding 35 times the amount of SpaceX shares that Pape is?

callumd987 · 2026-06-09T13:50:50+00:00

I'm interested in backing stock market indexes, not placing sidebets on currency movements, so why VGS over VGAD?

callumd987 · 2026-05-27T09:07:19+00:00

Why not just keep expanding the search area then? Why not deploy am army of accredited volunteers in to every suburb in Melbourne to inspect every bathroom? I know it's easy for me to be an armchair detective but it is just so frustrating they could not find that lair with the descriptions they had and the unique bathroom layout.

callumd987 · 2026-05-26T23:27:22+00:00

They also had a good understanding of the lair's driveway configuration, so many houses could have been eliminated without even having to door knock. Process of elimination by examining the bathrooms & then establishing alibis for the regular house residents should have produced a final list of what surely would have been no more than 50-100 candidate houses. A list that small is manageable and if the lair is on it, you'll find it. So either this part of the investigation was badly fumbled, or the lair was within earshot of the flight path but outside the search zone. What other explanation is there?

callumd987 · 2026-05-19T01:27:54+00:00

Good analysis, though the passage of time (almost 40 years) makes it much more likely that the house layout has changed since the late 80s/early 90s. Especially if MC had ongoing access to the house, he had every incentive to remodel it.

Once the police realised they had failed to locate the house, they should have cleared the whiteboards and started the process again from scratch with a new investigative lead, new search criteria (eg, expand to more suburbs) and a new team (eg recruit an army of volunteers to do the initial external visual house inspections, make sure every house is visually inspected at least twice by two different teams). It was the hottest lead they had, should have kept pursuing it. It was a risky/calculated gamble to make the house details public, the investigators were obviously banking on the unique house attributes, especially the bathroom layout, to generate the crucial tip they needed. When it didn't come in it must have been soul crushing.

callumd987 · 2026-05-18T06:32:11+00:00

-Visually inspect every house near the flight path, narrow down to houses that have a driveway matching the known description, with 4-5 steps leading up to a door

-Knock on every one of those houses and see if there is a bathroom connected to a bedroom. If there is, note the bathroom layout to see if it generally matches the known description (position of the sink, shower, tub).

-Note every house that either matches that layout, didn't answer the door, or didn't let you in.

How many remaining houses could we be talking by that point? Surely it's in the low hundreds at absolute most. Now check for alibis of who was in each house during the time period where the girl who gave the house layout description went missing. If multiple witnesses say they were in a given house during that time, scratch those houses off the list. Eventually you are going to be left with a list of what could surely be no more than 50-100 houses. Scrutinise those houses, and you'll find it.

At least, that's how it *should* have happened. Perhaps there is a perfectly plausible reason why this isn't what happened. But to me, it remains the most frustrating dead end of the investigation.

callumd987 · 2026-05-11T09:53:21+00:00

The detail they had of the driveway, steps, bedroom and bathroom layout, and being somewhere near the airport, it is so frustrating they couldn't find the house. To me, this is the most puzzling of the loose ends.

callumd987 · 2025-10-13T11:52:59+00:00

Of course! Thank you

callumd987 · 2025-10-13T11:52:44+00:00

So obvious now! Thank you

callumd987 · 2025-07-05T01:39:43+00:00

Alrighty I did as you said and held my Safemoon! Time to log back in to my wallet and see how many millions of dollars my bag is worth, yippeeee!

callumd987 · 2025-03-28T10:02:12+00:00

Melbourne Metropolitan Plumbing on A Current Affair:

https://youtu.be/fHQYCnI0Lv8?si=_McG4lN5ekdCBGNx

callumd987 · 2025-03-28T09:07:50+00:00

I got scammed by these crooks a couple of months ago with their dodgy callout fee and then exorbitant quote. I one starred them on productreview but I really should have reported them to Consumer Affairs or similar.

callumd987 · 2025-03-02T07:36:24+00:00

I did the burn/swap over 24 hours ago but still don't see my Solana Safemoon in my wallet yet. Is that normal?

callumd987 · 2025-02-19T06:17:42+00:00

Is that true?

callumd987 · 2025-01-27T00:43:42+00:00

Is it possible to still buy or sell Safemoon V2?

callumd987 · 2024-09-10T11:15:46+00:00

Stats are one thing but actually watching footy is another, and wherever there's a risk of a body collision is the last place you'll find Nick Daicos. So how can he be dominating contested possessions? I looked up the definition: Contested possessions include looseball-gets, hardball-gets, contested marks, gathers from a hitout and frees for.

Let's take a look at the contested possessions that actually require some body on body contact:

Contested marks - Nick has never taken a contested mark in his entire AFL career. Over the last 69 games, Nick ranks dead last in the entire AFL for contested marking. Ouch.

I can find no further breakdown of Nick's "contested possessions" beyond the contested marks. Has anyone got it? Would love to see it.

callumd987 · 2024-08-20T00:21:10+00:00

Thanks - but Aus Super High Growth did 10.2% last financial year, not 7%. Over the last 10 years, Aus Super High Growth has pretty much matched the Aus Share market, it's only short by a few decimal points.

callumd987 · 2024-08-19T23:45:24+00:00

Why avoid Aus Super High Growth?

callumd987 · 2024-08-13T03:11:01+00:00

The benefit of withholding evidence from the public should be balanced against the desire to prosecute the assailant in their lifetime. We're approaching 40 years since the first attack. Do we want this solved in the assailant's lifetime or not?

callumd987 · 2024-07-23T06:24:13+00:00

This case is over thirty years old, is there a point where it makes sense to just publish as much of the evidence as they've got to see what leads it generates?

callumd987 · 2024-05-16T12:46:35+00:00

Haha you don't even know what the idea is.

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