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When was dna technology first used in forensics?

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  • by Kelli Coats on December 15th, 2009

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    According to the National Academies Press, DNA technology was first used in forensics work beginning in 1985 in the United Kingdom. Commercial laboratories in the United States first used it in 1986, and in 1988 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began using it.

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  • by Bodley_Fludes on January 3rd, 2011

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    DNA evidence was first used in the solving of a crime and the subsequent successful prosecution of the perpetrator in Leicestershire, England. Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester had published a paper on genetic profiling in 1985 and there quickly followed the first practical application of the theory in two unsolved local cases.
    A mass local DNA screening operation failed to identify the killer of two girls. It was later determined the killer had employed a substitute to evade identification. An earlier strong suspect who appeared to know too much that perfectly accorded with one of the two crime-scenes was fortunate in being cleared by the this new science of DNA typing. The killer was finally apprehended 19 September 1987 and confessed to the crimes.

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