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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.
This was the first use of DNA fingerprinting in a criminal investigation, and the first to prove a suspect's innocence. [96] The following year Colin Pitchfork was identified as the perpetrator of the same murder, in addition to another, using the same techniques that had cleared Buckland.
Based on the familial results, Nyqvist's brother was also initially taken in for questioning. [12] 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]
Using state-of-the-art DNA analysis, combined with traditional detective work, Moore and Honolulu police identified a long-ago Honolulu neighbor of Anderson’s, Tudor Chirila, then 77, as a ...
She reported the results from D1S80 DNA matching, narrating her results using a poster board to reconstruct the prosecution's theory of how the crimes were committed. Her results showed that Simpson was present during the murders as evidenced by his blood being found next to the bloody footprints next to the bodies.
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.
Over 130 years after his gruesome murders in East London, England, the descendants of his victims are looking to unmask the identity of the serial killer popularly known as Jack the Ripper. The ...
The case was resolved when the DNA results proved that the boy was closely related to the other members of the family, and Jeffreys saw the relief in the mother's face when she heard the results. [8] DNA fingerprinting was first used in a police forensic test to identify the killer of two teenagers, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, who had been ...