Medical Detectives - Season 1 (1996) (season)


The Footpath Murders (S01E04)

(episode)
  • Germany Mörderische Gene
USA / Germany, 1996, 23 min

Cast:

Peter Thomas (narrator)

Plots(1)

The first case to use DNA evidence is detailed. In 1983 Leicester, England, police were stymied by a rape/murder of a 15-year-old girl; three years later, faced with a similar crime, they turned to Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a molecular biologist with a revolutionary approach to solving the case. (TLC Network)