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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.
A TikTokker has revealed how a simple Ancestry DNA test may have solved a notorious 27-year murder mystery known as the Baby Garnet case — and landed her grandmother in jail.
The Angie Dodge case. Some of the most famous cases solved by genetic genealogy — the identification of Joseph DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer, or the identification of Lonnie Franklin as ...
A pair of men already serving life behind bars have been charged in two Tampa Bay-area cold case murders thanks to DNA evidence that previously helped exonerate a death row inmate.
Roberts' case is notable for being one of the first cold cases in the world to be solved using DNA extracted from rootless hair. Due to the DNA of Roberts' bones being too deteriorated to successfully extract a complete profile, the profile was completed using new developments in rootless hair sequencing, methods pioneered by paleogenomics ...
In 2003, detectives re-opened the case in the hope of finding DNA evidence on the gun, but were not successful as too many people had handled the weapon. It was believed the victim's clothes had been lost. However, in 2008, a team of retired detectives investigating cold cases found Drinkwater's clothes in storage. Her blue coat, underwear and ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Investigators in Wisconsin have used DNA evidence to solve a 65-year-old cold case involving a 7-year-old boy whose body was found in a culvert.
Defense forensic DNA expert Dr. Henry Lee published Blood Evidence: How DNA Is Revolutionizing The Way We Solve Crimes (2003), writing that the cross-contamination theory was implausible, as well as maintaining his lack of belief in the claim that police planting evidence. He also opines that the jury may not have understood the DNA evidence ...