First DNA Conviction / Lynda Mann & Dawn Ashworth / Colin Pitchfork

Richard Buckland had spent the last three months in a jail cell. The 17-year-old had confessed to the brutal rape and murder of teenager Dawn Ashworth. A similar death had occurred nearby, three years before…

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This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton. 

Illustrations and production direction also by Rosanna Fitton. Narration, audio editing, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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MUSIC: 

One Night by Bankrupt Bakery

Opening Credits by ROZKOL

The Institute Laboratories by ROZKOL

Hell Slime by ROZKOL

Landmine by Bankrupt Bakery

To the Waters Edge by ROZKOL

All music sourced from http://freemusicarchive.org and used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

REFERENCES:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6031749.stm

https://www.hinckleytimes.net/news/local-news/gallery/colin-pitchfork-case-11243261

The Guardian - 23rd January 1988

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/expert-says-child-killer-colin-321542

Real Life Crimes 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/alberto-costa-wants-assurances-colin-1108448

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8050279.stm

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/killer-dna-evidence-genetic-profiling-criminal-investigation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-15452142

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Pitchfork,%20Colin.pdf

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/festival-halls-sculpture-is-by-child-sex-murderer-colin-pitchfork-km9xx33zjfx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40929565

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6236909.stm

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/its-upsetting-us-victims-sisters-771425

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32487464

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