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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.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office used DNA and forensic genealogy to identify the suspected killer, who turned out to be the same man who reported finding Esther Gonzalez’s body to ...
An outside genetic genealogy expert then concluded that the cigarette DNA had strong connections to relatives of William DeRoos (the person living near the victim's apartment who had been questioned by detectives and claimed an alibi) on both his paternal and maternal sides. Investigators found a living half-brother of DeRoos who willingly ...
Advancements in DNA technology and a surge of public interest are rekindling hope for breakthroughs in the long-unsolved murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, a case that has remained a haunting ...
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 ...
The Duguay case marked the world’s first use of non-human DNA in a criminal trial; [1] while the forensic science of testing cat and dog hairs had been firmly established and studied, it was an unknown science up until that point. [9]
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.