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DNA fingerprinting s a valuable forensic tool that has been hugely instrumental in helping police identify criminals.But where did it begin?

When did this cutting edge technology become available leading to millions of murders being solved the world over?

The answer to this takes us back to 1983 in Leicestershire, England when 15 year old Lynda Mann was brutally sexually assaulted & murdered.

Searches for her killer proved fruitless, until another young girl was murdered three years later.

But this time police had a new trick up their sleeve, a ground breaking advancement in forensic science.

DNA fingerprinting has since put millions of criminals behind bars ...

Police did a sweep of all local men asking them to submit dna to eliminate them from the murders .

But when a private conversation is overheard of a man admitting to giving his own dna in place of a friends.

This information leads police to the man who hadn't wanted to submit his own DNA, the man who had killed the two victims.

The man with the most serial killery name I've ever heard Colin Pitchfork, a local married father.

Pitchfork went down in history as being the first murderer ever to be convicted using DNA evidence making him part of British Criminological history & not in a good way....

The British public were in uproar when he was released in 2021 after serving 33 years, before being recalled to prison for breaking rules of his probation.

But the question remains will he stay behind bars, or will this child killer be released to live amongst us as a free man, who is free to use his new name once again ..?

This is episode 130

Colin Pitchfork The Pathway Killer : Part 1

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On September 14th 2019 33 year old much loved teacher Jonelle Melton failed to show up to teach her class at the local school. Concerned colleagues ask her estranged husband Micheal to drive over to hers & check on her. When he does he is greeted by a grisly & bloody discovery. Jonelle had been tortured & murdered in her Neptune City apartment, New Jersey.

Jonelles violent death shocked the community & very soon suspicion from all angles fell on the one closest to her, Micheal .

But no arrest was ever made for Jonelles murder, as months turned into years, as time passed by her case gets colder. And Michael's life continues to unravel under the constant cloak of suspicion.

Until finally a new detective gets a lead that helps to break this ice cold case wide open, exposing three heartless career criminals as the real killers.

This is a truly tragic story involving a tangled web of deadly misidentification, greed, a botched burglary, heartless criminals & a man whose life was nearly destroyed by wrongful accusations.

Most importantly at the heart of it all one innocent woman Jonelle had her life senselessly taken in such a brutal way.....

This is episode 129

Mistaken : The Murder Of Jonelle Melton

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In today's episode we welcome back a special guest, forensic death investigator Joseph Scott Morgan.

You may recognise Joseph as the host of hugely successful podcast Body Bags, he is also a Professor at Jackson State University & is considered one of the leading experts on the Coroner System in the United States.

Joseph recently appeared on the tv chart topping Peacock documentary 'The Idaho Student Murders'.

We discuss with him the horrific & unprecedented quadruple murders of four bright young students Madison 'Maddie' Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle & Ethan Chapin that took place on November 13th 2022 in Moscow, Idaho.

It was a brutal massacre that shocked the residents of the safe city it took place in as well as millions of people around the world.

28 year old criminology student Bryan Kohberger has just been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for their murders & 10 years for felony burglary.

Joseph has spoken on many true crime tv shows & tv news segments about this case, some of which it was recently revealed the killer had been watching before he was ultimately arrested for his crimes.

We discuss different aspects of the Idaho Four murders today & Joseph shares his fascinating insight & knowledge of the case, as well as similar violent crime scenes he attended during his career & more .......

This is episode 128

Host Of 'Body Bags' Joseph Scott Morgan On The Idaho Four murders

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