Health & Fitness
Today’s question: Should Walker veto DNA testing upon arrest
By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – You probably won’t find a more ardent supporter of expanded DNA testing than Sen. Jennifer Shilling.
The La Crosse Democrat’s parents were among seven people killed in 1993 in the gruesome, cold-blooded murders at Brown’ Chicken & Pasta in suburban Chicago.
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Shilling was 23 at the time.
Last month the lawmaker made a passionate plea on the Senate floor in support of a budget provision that gives police power to take DNA samples from anyone arrested on a felony charge.
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After all, improved DNA testing helped track down her parents’ killers nearly a decade after their murders.
“To know there is a database bank of DNA, it gives survivors – I hate to be called a victim – it gives survivors hope. It gives victims’ families hope,” Shilling said during Senate debate on the measure.