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Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.
Gary E. Dotson [1] (born March 8, 1957) is an American man who was the first [2] person to be exonerated of a criminal conviction by DNA evidence. [3] In May 1979, he was found guilty and sentenced to 25 to 50 years' imprisonment for rape, and another 25 to 50 years for aggravated kidnapping, the terms to be served concurrently.
His discovery is first put to use in an immigration case, successfully proving the parentage of a young Ghanaian boy and preventing his deportation. The acceptance of Jeffreys’s findings in a court of law opens the door to DNA testing, and he and his university laboratory are swamped by paternity and immigration cases.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ridulph await the arrival of a pathologist at the sheriff's office in Galena, Ill., before a positive identification of a body found near Woodbine, Ill., can be made, April 27 ...
Altemio C. Sanchez (January 19, 1958 – September 22, 2023), also known as the Bike Path Rapist (and later Killer), [2] was a serial killer, of Puerto Rican descent , who is known to have raped and murdered at least three women, [3] and raped at least 9 to 15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York, during a 31-year span from 1975, though perhaps earlier, to 2006.
Judy Rodriguez was 30 when her family reported her missing on January 23, 1991, a short time after her daughter Stephanie’s first birthday party. NYC woman murdered 33 years ago finally ID’d ...
Timothy Wilson Spencer (March 17, 1962 – April 27, 1994), also known as The Southside Strangler, was an American serial killer who committed three rapes and murders in Richmond, Virginia, and one in Arlington, Virginia, in the fall of 1987. [1]
The researchers used data from 17 actual cases to test their model. In each case, the target’s DNA—that of the suspect or the victim—produced anywhere from 200 to 5,000 matches.