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  • Published: 1 March 1995
  • ISBN: 9780553763300
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

The Blooding

The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting"




Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough.  Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.  Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered.  But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.

  • Published: 1 March 1995
  • ISBN: 9780553763300
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

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