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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.
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 ...
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]
Tracy Whitney was last seen leaving a Burger King after an argument with her ex-boyfriend in August 1988. Less than 24 hours later, fishermen found her body in a river near Sumner, Washington ...
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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.
In 2001, the Kansas City Police Department received a multimillion-dollar federal grant aimed at re-examining cold cases using new DNA technology. [6] After examining the blood sample taken from Lorenzo Gilyard, the investigation team conclusively connected him to the murders of six women in the area, including Sheila Ingold, for whose murder ...