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The Blooding
The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting" | Joseph Wambaugh
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Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.
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A bone-chilling account of the 1980s Narborough Village (England) rape/murders - the first such crimes to be solved using DNA. Local police took frantic measures, including taking blood samples from thousands of men, in a years-long hunt for the killer. Wambaugh tells a scary yarn but the efforts of the eccentric, dogged detectives border on dark humor in places, despite the overall mood of dread. This was a neat slice of true crime history.

AliceCullen Sounds like my kind of book. 2y
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