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The True Crime Files · Book 12.00
Solved by DNA
How Forensic Genetics Cracked Cold Cases, Exposed Killers and Freed the Innocent
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When Biology Challenges the Story DNA did not enter criminal justice as a magical truth machine. It entered as a new way to compare biological material, first through labor-intensive profiling and later through highly sensitive short tandem repeat analysis, national databases, mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome testing, and, more recently, investigative genetic genealogy.
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Solved by DNA explores how Forensic Genetics Cracked Cold Cases, Exposed Killers and Freed the Innocent.
This volume in The True Crime Files examines documented cases through evidence, investigation, legal outcomes and historical context rather than sensationalism. Key themes include DNA, Forensics, Forensic Genetics, Cold Cases, Wrongful Convictions.
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The Genetic Revolution in Criminal Investigation
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Alec Jeffreys, Richard Buckland and the First DNA Exoneration
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Colin Pitchfork - The First Murderer Convicted Through DNA Profiling
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From Individual Casework to CODIS
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Cold Evidence - Why Preservation Can Matter More Than Prediction
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- SOLVED BY DNA
- Introduction - When Biology Challenges the Story
- Chapter 1 - The Genetic Revolution in Criminal Investigation
- Chapter 2 - Alec Jeffreys, Richard Buckland and the First DNA Exoneration
- Chapter 3 - Colin Pitchfork - The First Murderer Convicted Through DNA Profiling
- Chapter 4 - From Individual Casework to CODIS
- Chapter 5 - Cold Evidence - Why Preservation Can Matter More Than Prediction
- Chapter 6 - The Golden State Killer - The Case That Changed Genetic Genealogy
- Chapter 7 - Investigative Genetic Genealogy - A Lead, Not a Conviction
- Chapter 8 - Michelle Martinko - A 1979 Murder Reopened by Genealogy
- Chapter 9 - April Tinsley - Notes, DNA and a Family-Tree Search
- Chapter 10 - Christy Mirack - When a DJ Became a DNA Lead
- Chapter 11 - Angie Dodge and Christopher Tapp - DNA Corrects the Wrong Story
- Chapter 12 - Kirk Bloodsworth - The First Death-Row DNA Exoneration
- Chapter 13 - Ray Krone - When DNA Overruled Bite-Mark Certainty
- Chapter 14 - Gary Ridgway and the Green River Murders
- Chapter 15 - The Boston Strangler and Albert DeSalvo - A DNA Answer Decades Later
- Chapter 16 - The Grim Sleeper - Familial Searching Before the Genealogy Boom
- Chapter 17 - What a DNA Match Actually Means
- Chapter 18 - Mixtures - When More Than One Person Leaves DNA
- Chapter 19 - Touch DNA and the Problem of Transfer
- Chapter 20 - Mitochondrial DNA - When Nuclear DNA Is Gone
- Chapter 21 - STRs, SNPs and Why Genealogy Uses Different DNA
- Chapter 22 - Sexual-Assault Kits and Repeated Database Searching
- Chapter 23 - DNA and False Confessions
- Chapter 24 - Wrongful Convictions and Evidence Preservation
- Chapter 25 - Contamination - The DNA That Should Never Have Been There
- Chapter 26 - Statistics - Avoiding the Prosecutor’s Fallacy
- Chapter 27 - Privacy and the Genealogy Debate
- Chapter 28 - Unidentified Human Remains - Giving a Name Back to the Dead
- Chapter 29 - Confirmation - Why the Family Tree Is Not Enough
- Chapter 30 - What DNA Can Prove - and What It Cannot
- Special Dossier 1 - CODIS vs Familial Searching vs Investigative Genetic Genealogy
- Special Dossier 2 - DNA as an Innocence Tool
- Special Dossier 3 - Laboratory Quality, Contamination and Chain of Custody
- Appendix A - Forensic DNA Glossary
- Appendix B - From Evidence to Confirmed Match: A Practical Workflow
- Appendix C - The True Crime Files: Complete 30-Book Plan
- Research Notes & Further Reading
- Table of Contents
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