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  2. Colin Pitchfork - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Code of a Killer - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Murder of Shirley Duguay - Wikipedia

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    The Duguay case marked the world’s first use of non-human DNA in a criminal trial; [1] while the forensic science of testing cat and dog hairs had been firmly established and studied, it was an unknown science up until that point. [9]

  5. 19-Year-Old Nancy Anderson Was Murdered in Her Honolulu ...

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    Related: Hawaii 19-Year-Old Was Found Slain in Home 50 Years Ago — and Suspect Was Just Charged After Son Provided DNA. Using state-of-the-art DNA analysis, combined with traditional detective ...

  6. DNA confirms man who had passed polygraph test as suspected ...

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    After 45 years, authorities in California were finally able to tell the Gonzalez family who they believe killed their loved one. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office used DNA and forensic ...

  7. DNA revealed suspect in 1996 murder of Montana girl. He died ...

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    For nearly three decades, the person behind the brutal murder of a 15-year-old girl found in a Montana river in 1996 remained a mystery. After a breakthrough using modern DNA testing, a suspect ...

  8. Kirk Bloodsworth - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. DNA evidence helps identify woman’s killer 36 years ... - AOL

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    The first breakthrough came in 2022, after the sheriff’s office received a grant from the state attorney general’s office. With this funding, they sent the DNA sample to Parabons NanoLab in ...