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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.
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.
He is first cousins with infamous criminal Larry Murphy and attended school with him. [6] [7] During house to house inquires following the discovery of Rynn's body, Lawler admitted to being in the area at the time of the crime. He subsequently gave a blood sample in February 1996. The DNA match returned in July 1996 and further tests confirmed ...
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 ...
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]
Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910), colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen.
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.
Antoni Imiela, who was caught using a similar DNA profiling method; Joseph Kappen, a Welsh serial killer identified in 2002 with the same familial DNA profiling technique used to catch Aram's killer; Murder of Claire Woolterton – infamous 1981 UK cold case murder of a girl solved with DNA in 2013; UK cold cases where the offender's DNA is known: