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Listen as Steve and Hannah discuss England in the 1980’s when DNA was first used to convict a killer and exonerate the innocent…where would murder investigations be without this case. Colin Pitchfork raped and strangled two teenage girls between 1983 and 1986. Early scientific DNA profiling connected Pitchfork’s DNA to the girls and he was sentenced to life in prison.

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