His Own Daughter's DNA: Christopher Hampton and the Murder of Melanie Road
In June 1984, seventeen-year-old Melanie Road walked home alone from a Bath nightclub and was found murdered beside a row of garages near her family home. Police kept seventy-one blood spots from the scene, but ninety-four arrests and two decades of DNA searches produced no charge. Then, in 2014, a woman was cautioned for breaking her partner's necklace, and her DNA led detectives to her father, Christopher Hampton.
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