Autoři: Joseph Wambaugh
Vydavatelství: William Morrow & Company
Vydáno: 1991
On 21st November 1983 a young girl was raped and murdered near her home in the Leicestershire village of Narborough. Nearly three years later the case had still not been solved when another young girl was similarly raped and killed near the same village. In the hunt that followed a young kitchen porter, who had been sighted several times near the crime scene, was arrested and he subsequently confessed to the second murder. Convinced that they had found the killer of both girls, the police enlisted the help of a scientific aid that had only just been announced. The technique was known as “genetic fingerprinting”. The police were devastated when the lab report on the tests stated that the kitchen porter was innocent of both the first and second murder. However, the tests did prove conclusively that the crimes were committed by the same person. So began the first “mass screening” of all eligible males in the village that led to the arrest and conviction of the rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork – the first man to be convicted using DNA evidence.
