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Jan 2022
27m 35s

My True Crime Episode with David Mittelm...

SIMON SINEK
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Less than 5% of major crimes end in a conviction. For cold cases, that number drops to 1%.       Those numbers won’t stay low forever.   David Mittelman’s company, Othram Inc., is revolutionizing DNA sequencing and, in the process, greatly reducing the number of “unsolvable” cases.    I called David to learn more about how the new technology works, what it m ... Show More
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