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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.
On June 23, 2006, following the result of a DNA analysis, Gilyard was charged with an additional murder: Helga Kruger (26) was found strangled with a towel in Kansas City in February 1989. An Austrian immigrant, Kruger was a convicted extortionist, but police found no links pointing towards her being in the prostitution business. [10]
A DNA test was made after Daniel Nyqvist's arrest which showed a 100% match between his DNA and the DNA found at the crime scene. [17] Daniel Nyqvist confessed to the double murders the same day as he was arrested. [17] [18] On 1 October 2020, Nyqvist was found guilty and sentenced to psychiatric care indefinitely for the two murders. [19]
DNA evidence collected at the time of Danielle Houchins’ death in 1996 led police to Paul Hutchinson, a 55-year-old father of two Cops finally crack mystery of Montana 15-year-old’s 1996 murder.
Over 130 years after his gruesome murders in East London, England, the descendants of his victims are looking to unmask the identity of the serial killer popularly known as Jack the Ripper. The ...
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. [1] [2] He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland. By the time an appeal based on the DNA ...
Investigators got DNA from a knife sheath left at the crime scene and referenced testing on that sample in an affidavit supporting the arrest of Bryan Kohberger. DNA evidence likely key part of U ...
Jeffreys's DNA method was first put to use in 1985 when he was asked to help in a disputed immigration case to confirm the identity of a British boy whose family was originally from Ghana. [8] The case was resolved when the DNA results proved that the boy was closely related to the other members of the family, and Jeffreys saw the relief in the ...