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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.
He is first cousins with infamous criminal Larry Murphy and attended school with him. [6] [7] During house to house inquires following the discovery of Rynn's body, Lawler admitted to being in the area at the time of the crime. He subsequently gave a blood sample in February 1996. The DNA match returned in July 1996 and further tests confirmed ...
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.
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 ...
Law enforcement is using DNA testing to track the murderer who laced bottles of Tylenol with cyanide in 1982, killing seven people. From notorious serial killers to murderers who committed heinous ...
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]
Prosecutor George Clarke published Justice and Science: Trials and Triumphs of DNA Evidence (2007), stating that the defense abandoned their claim of the DNA evidence being unreliable after the Fuhrman tapes were discovered, because they believed they had a motive for the evidence being planted and that would explain the results too. [151]
The researchers used data from 17 actual cases to test their model. In each case, the target’s DNA—that of the suspect or the victim—produced anywhere from 200 to 5,000 matches.