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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.
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 ...
A photo released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office showing DeAngelo, who joined the Exeter Police Department in 1973. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was born on November 8, 1945, in Bath, New York, to Kathleen "Kay" Louise DeGroat (June 30, 1923 – August 21, 2010) and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr. (January 19, 1920 – February 15, 1995), a sergeant in the United States Army.
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]
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 ...
Authorities have identified the man who assaulted and killed a Washington woman 36 years ago, and they used DNA to solve the case. Fishermen found a body on Aug. 28, 1988, according to the Pierce ...
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.
Investigators said they found DNA evidence on that sheath that eventually helped lead them to a suspect, Bryan C. Kohberger, who was arrested Dec. 30 at his family’s home in Pennsylvania.