DNA profiling
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DNA profiling is the process of determining an individual's deoxyribonucleic acid characteristics. DNA analysis intended to identify a species, rather than an individual, is called DNA barcoding.
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
CBP chemist reads a DNA profile to determine the origin of a commodity.
Colin Pitchfork
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Colin Pitchfork is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villa
DNA profiling
…investigation, resulted in the exoneration of Richard Buckland, an initial suspect who had confessed to one of the crimes, and the subsequent conviction of Colin Pitchfork on January 2, 1988. Pitchfork, a local bakery employee, had coerced his coworker Ian Kelly to stand in for him when providing a blood sample—Kelly then…
Pitchfork after his arrest in September 1987
The Clarendon pub in Leicester, where Ian Kelly admitted, on Saturday 1 August 1987, that he had taken the test