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Murder Rape and DNA
M. Villani


  1. How was Alicia Wade abducted?
  2. Why did the authorities focus on Jim Wade as the prime suspect?
  3. Why did Alicia finally tell her therapist that her father raped her?
  4. What new evidence allowed for further investigation into Jim Wade.s case
  5. How is a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test conducted?
  6. How did the PCR test help Jim Wade.s case?
  7. How did the detectives make the connection between Alicia.a assault and Albert Carter?
  8. How is the accuracy and acceptability of DNA evidence monitored?
  9. How did the genetic fingerprinting technique help solve the Linda Mann Murder?
  10. Why did the detectives charge Richard Buckland with Dawn Ashworth.s murder?
  11. Why were the police convinced that a sole killer was responsible for both Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.s murders?

  12. What cleared Richard Buckland of Dawn Ashworth.s murder?
  13. How is the RFLP (restriction fragment length ploymorphism) test conducted?
  14. How were the RFLP test results useful to the police?
  15. Why was the RFLP method rather than the PCR method of DNA typing more useful in solving the Mann and Ashworth murders?
  16. Why did Ian Kelly agree to take the blood test for Collin Pitchfork?
  17. Why was Collin Pitchfork convicted of the Mann murders?
  18. How is DNA typing used to prove paternity?
  19. How does DNA typing compare with fingerprinting?

 


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