How police caught the bicycle bandit after almost two decades | Stateline | ABC News

For the first time, police have revealed how they used publicly sourced DNA to catch one of the state's most wanted men.
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Former police officer Kym Allen Parsons, who was known as the bicycle bandit, was arrested in 2023, almost 20 years after he committed his first robbery.
For the victims, his arrest and sentence has been bitter-sweet.
But as James Wakelin explains, Parsons could well have escaped capture if not for the new investigative tool that could help solve countless more crimes.
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