Forensic Files
Season 1 • Episode 4: The Footpath Murders • Watch with subtitles
Episode 4: The Footpath Murders
October 17, 1996 • 23 min
The first case to use DNA evidence is detailed. In 1983 Leicester, England, police were stymied by a rape/murder of a 15-year-old girl; three years later, faced with a similar crime, they turned to Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a molecular biologist with a revolutionary approach to solving the case.
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