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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.
Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910), colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen.
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]
In Smith's case, scientists used genome sequencing to build a DNA profile for the murder suspect, according to Othram Inc., a labratory that specializes in forensic genetic genealogy to assist law ...
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. [1] [2] He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland. By the time an appeal based on the DNA ...
The son of a couple killed in a suspected triple murder held the alleged shooter at gunpoint until police arrived, according to reports On Monday, Jan. 13, David Lever, 55, of Greenville, North ...
Trump news – live: Trump posts video attacking four criminal probes after he claimed he will be arrested today Alex Woodward and Sravasti Dasgupta March 21, 2023 at 6:07 AM
Antoni Imiela, who was caught using a similar DNA profiling method; Joseph Kappen, a Welsh serial killer identified in 2002 with the same familial DNA profiling technique used to catch Aram's killer; Murder of Claire Woolterton – infamous 1981 UK cold case murder of a girl solved with DNA in 2013; UK cold cases where the offender's DNA is known: