39. "You won't believe what happened next": a true crime special

Discovery Matters

English - August 06, 2021 11:13 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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How do you solve linked murders without witnesses? The answer, DNA.

In this episode of Discovery Matters, we have been inspired by the true crime genre. We discuss a 32-year-old cold case which was the first to be solved with DNA profiling, and a murder in Las Vegas that was solved with the smallest amount of DNA ever!

Join Dodi and Conor, and guest Kathryn Lamerton a former forensic scientist currently a Senior R&D Scientist at Cytiva, with a re-enactment helped by some of our colleagues at Cytiva for this exciting episode of Discovery Matters.

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Keywords: DNA, crime, DNA profiling, crime scene, Colin Pitchfork, R&D.