Forensic Files

Season 1, Episode 4

Episode Title: The Footpath Murders

Air Date: 1996-10-17

Overview:

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.