Real Crime
Cracking The Serial Killers Code
S1 • E4 Nov 30, 2001 60m
The story of how double-murderer Colin Pitchfork became the first criminal to be snared by DNA fingerprinting. In the mid-1980s, Pitchfork raped and
killed two Leicestershire schoolgirls, but despite exhaustive investigations evaded capture, largely due to a false confession and a bogus blood test which
threw police off his scent until a chance remark in a pub redirected them to the true perpetrator of the crimes
killed two Leicestershire schoolgirls, but despite exhaustive investigations evaded capture, largely due to a false confession and a bogus blood test which
threw police off his scent until a chance remark in a pub redirected them to the true perpetrator of the crimes
