Detectives Solve 20-Year-Old Cold Case Only to Learn the Killer Was Working Right Alongside Them

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The development of forensic technology had been relatively stagnant since 1901 when Scotland Yard validated fingerprinting as a means of identifying criminals. But the very same year of Sherri’s murder, DNA was used in a criminal investigation for the first time in history.

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