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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.
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.
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.
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] [8] The United States Court of Appeal affirmed in its judgment that the reliance on evidence based on new DNA technology in obtaining Spencer's conviction was sound. [9] Timothy Wilson Spencer was executed on April 27, 1994, at Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt, Virginia. He was put to death in the electric chair. [10]
The mother of a newborn baby discovered dead in a dumpster in California nearly 40 years ago has been arrested, accused of murder after she was identified using DNA technology.
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 ...
DNA profiling is a forensic technique in criminal investigations, comparing criminal suspects' profiles to DNA evidence so as to assess the likelihood of their involvement in the crime. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also used in paternity testing , [ 3 ] to establish immigration eligibility, [ 4 ] and in genealogical and medical research.