Have some courage.

If law enforcement asks for your DNA sample in a rape or murder case possibly involving one of your relatives, give the sample.  I get it–I don’t trust police myself, but how can you justify saying no?  The odds are it might even clear the person and if the person is long dead–get over yourself.

I’m told a sibling of the late Richard McNamee refused to provide a DNA sample concerning this pedophile cop.  You remember McNamee (use the search function to the right if you don’t)–the cop who happens to respond to Charles Busch’s call for a well-check on Chris Busch and is also a pedophile. What are the odds?  Maybe in that neighborhood the odds are pretty good, but nevertheless, McNamee’s sibling should have stepped up.

If you suspect you are related to someone who has committed a rape or participated in murder, you can test your DNA with 23andMe, download the data and then upload it to GEDMatch.  The basic ancestry service is $99.  Here’s how to upload the data to GEDMatch:  https://www.gedmatch.com/education/23andme/.  Be sure to check the boxes that allow law enforcement to search your data.  You never know what good could come of this.

This goes way back, but remember when Det. Cory Williams interviewed Greg Greene’s brother, who told him that Greg had sent him some letter toward the end of his life but it was so nasty and horrible, he ditched it?  Guy like Greene finds Jesus in prison and writes about his involvement in serious crimes against kids and you throw it out rather than take it to police?  

Here’s another depressing situation.  Person on Reddit writes that people close to Robert Van Hengel (the major suspect in the unsolved 1978 murder of Troy resident Gail Webster) knew he was not a good person “under the surface” and that this was confirmed after he died and a relative of his deceased girlfriend went through his house.  It could just be rank hearsay, but the person wrote that they couldn’t believe in light of these discoveries that he got away with murder/s.  It all got ditched.

If you go through “Uncle Bob’s” or “Uncle Dick’s” or your family member priest’s shit after they die and find evidence of crimes, find a conscience and turn it in.  And if it’s in the OCCK case or Gail Webster’s case, turn it in and tell another agency so it can’t be deep-sixed as easily.

Your family name means more than a dead kid or a dead mother?  Find a stack of fucked-up polaroids from back in the day?  Burn them and you are an enabler.  You now have blood on your hands, too.  Your family name is tarnished either way.

Do the right thing.