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In 1983, in a village near Leicester, England, a local girl named Lynda Mann was found raped and murdered. Three years later, a second girl, Dawn Ashworth, was found dead under similar circumstances. The similarities between the two cases led the police to believe that the same person had committed both crimes. After extensive inquiries, an arrest was made. The suspect confessed to the murder of Lynda Mann but denied having killed Dawn Ashworth. Convinced that they had the right man, the police approached Sir Alec Jeffreys, a professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, with a request to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Gill is a research consultant at the Forensic Science Service, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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