Dear Mounties : Wortman DNA turn up on any crime databases ?

Tragically Truro-born Martin Henry Dawson died before his DNA was used to solve crimes

A new member of a Facebook forum devoted to getting some real answers on the Wortman file (good luck with that !) asked if anyone knew if Gabriel Wortman’s DNA had been checked against Canadian national crime databases (and in the US too, as he had publicly boasted of killing men there.)

I told her the RCMP are maintaining radio silence on this point and I don’t believe any journalist amateur or professional had ever raised it publicly.

Time and time again, ordinary citizens raise good points or come forth with unique new information.

And I reminded her - and you, dear reader, that even if the RCMP has interviewed you as a source of information, they can not FORCE you to sign a non-disclosure agreement not to give the same information to others.

There will be no criminal trial for Wortman obviously.

 And it is very unlikely, given the justice system’s reluctance to see its own dirty laundry aired,  to see trials for those who helped him obtain decals and obtain illegal guns.

Now a plug for this blog’s main/real subject : Dr Martin Henry Dawson, born and raised in Truro, a hour to the east of the Portapique killings.

In 1930, he became the first person to put DNA to work in a test tube : genetically modifying pneumonia bacteria....