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Genetic Fingerprinting and The Black Pad Killer

Genetic Fingerprinting and The Black Pad Killer

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Travel back to 1980s England with me where we will discuss the discovery of genetic fingerprinting and its revolutionary use in helping solve the murder of two teenage girls.

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Episode Sources:

  • Thirty years of DNA forensics: How DNA has revolutionized criminal investigations

  • What is a DNA fingerprint?

  • The history of genetic fingerprinting

  • Minisatellites: Mutability and Genome Architecture

  • Family fingerprints

  • Murderpedia: Colin Pitchfork

  • The Forensics Library: Colin Pitchfork

  • Case Study - Colin Pitchfork

  • Real Crime: “Cracking the Killer’s Code”

  • Notorious Leicestershire child killer Colin Pitchfork up for parole

  • TRAGIC TEENS Who killed Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth and when were the schoolgirls murdered?

  • Murderpedia: Colin Pitchfork “Black Pad Killer”

  • The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

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