He Paid a Man £200 to Take His DNA Test. It Caught Him Anyway.
In 1987, a baker in Leicestershire paid a colleague to give blood in his name. Two hundred pounds. A clean result. The police never got his sample.
They already had it. It was on the bodies of two fifteen-year-old girls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, raped and strangled on footpaths three miles apart. For nearly four years, nobody could put a name to it.
Then a woman in a pub overheard the wrong conversation.
This is the story of Colin Pitchfork, the first murderer in history convicted by DNA, the teenager who falsely confessed and was cleared by the same science, and the mass screening of…
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