The Footpath Murders Forensic Files : Season 1 Episode 4
TV-14 Court TV 30m int(0)
Aired: October 23rd, 1996 @ 12:00 AM EST on Court TV
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.