THE BLOODING

Hardback. 1st US edn. Featuring the Narborough murder enquiry, the world's first murder case to be resolved by "genetic fingerprinting". On November 21, 1983, 15yr. old Lynda Mann was raped and murdered near her home in the Leicestershire village of Narborough. Nearly 3yrs. later the police had still not found her murderer when Dawn Ashworth, also 15, was similarly raped and killed near the same village. A massive blood sampling exercise followed which came to be known as "the blooding", which eventually led to the arrest and conviction of the rapist and murderer, Colin Pitchfork. 288pp. 8vo. lge. 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in Vg+ dw.