'Woodland rapist' victim says genealogy helped police crack cold case

A man who was attacked in a Brampton, Ont., park 30 years ago is speaking out for the first time, telling CBC News that police told him they identified the alleged 'woodland rapist' after a relative of the suspect submitted DNA to an ancestry-type website.

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