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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.
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]
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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 ...
He had no criminal history and was married with two adult children. Genealogists were able to use DNA to identify 55-year-old Paul Hutchinson of Dillon, Montana, as a possible suspect in the 1996 ...
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.