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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.
It was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling. [3] The prosecution relied heavily on DNA evidence and it became a case study for the use of the technique in court. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The murder of Debra Lee Miller, a case that spent more than 40 years unsolved, has finally been closed after DNA testing allowed officers to pinpoint the culprit Image credits: WKYC Channel 3
In 2020, police exhumed Lindahl's body and used DNA to solve the Maurer case. DNA evidence linked Lindahl to the crime. Lindahl is also accused of raping and later killing Debra Colliander before ...
A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after charges against the boy's adoptive parents were dropped for lack of ...
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 ...
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.
The Sheriff's office interviewed hundreds of witnesses. More than 400 men were eliminated as suspects through blood typing and DNA analysis. [2] A year later, Wendy Smith, a friend and former classmate of Hammerberg was found dead. Her death was ruled a homicide while her cause of death was investigated. [5] [6] [10]