Civil rights advocates asked Cape Cod authorities on Monday to stop collecting DNA samples from men in Truro in their investigation into the 3-year-old murder of fashion writer Christa Worthington.
Calling the effort ''a serious intrusion on personal privacy'' that is unlikely to yield results, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts sent a letter to Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe and Truro Police Chief John Thomas, urging them to end the mass collection of DNA samples.
Police have staked out the dump, the post office and other locations to gather DNA from residents in a renewed effort to solve Worthington's murder. They collected 75 samples last week, on top of 100 gathered earlier in the investigation, and the effort continues.
Truro, on the outer Cape, has a year-round population of less than 2,000.
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