Colin Pitchfork

Schon Gonzales
 1. 1983 & 1986

2. Narborough, England & Enderby, Canada

3. Alec Jeffreys, Peter Gill, & Dave Werrett

4. Leicester Crown Court

5. Richard Buckland

6. Blood Samples

7. Used blood samples to find suspect

8. It helped identify Pitchfork

9. Pitchfork found guilty

10. Colin Pitchfork would never be found without DNA

Questions
 DNA

- Nucleic acid that contains genetic instructions

for development & functions of living things

How does it relate to the cell?

- Long-term storage of information

What function does it serve?

- Needed to develop, survive, & reproduce

How it is used in forensic science?

- Identify Criminals
- Determine parentage

The Science Behind DNA

 Crimes?

- Rape & Murder of two 15 year old girls

- Main suspect was Richard Buckland
- Revealed knowledge of Ashworth’s body
- Found innocent
- 5000 local men DNA tested to find suspect
- Ian Kelly took test for Colin
- Kelly bragged in bar
- Woman overheard & reported to police
- Pitchfork confessed
- Sentenced for life in prison
- Reduced to 28 years

Case Summary
 Richard Buckland

- 17 year old kitchen porter

- Arrested August 8, 1986
- Would have gone to prison
- DNA fingerprinting was just invented by Dr Alec
Jefferys

Main Suspects
 DNA Evidence not found

- 5000 local men asked to give blood & saliva

samples for DNA testing
- No matches 6 months later

Ian Kelly

- Bragged in local bar for being paid 200 euros

- Give DNA sample to one of friends
- Friend was Colin Pitchfork

Case Evidence
 The case of Colin Pitchfork was the first case solved
using DNA evidence. Without DNA evidence in this
case, Richard Buckland would have been placed in
prison while Pitchfork would remain free. There would

DNA Influence be no way for detectives and police to solve this crime
without DNA evidence.
 - Colin found guilty
- Sentenced for life in prison
- Sentenced Reduced to 28 years
- Recalled to prison in 2021
- Approached young women

Case Outcome
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10222361/
Double-child-killer-Colin-Pitchfork-arrested-sent-prison
-concerning-behaviour.html

http://aboutforensics.co.uk/colin-pitchfork/

https://sites.google.com/site/audreycahillforensicsci
ence/case-study---colin-pitchork

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire
-59377431

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