Joseph Kappen
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- Leaving the Crimescene
- Investigation
- Cross referencing and Tests
- In 1973, three teenage girls (Sandra Newton, Pauline Floyd and Geraldine Hughes) were raped, strangled and dumped in an area of woodland near Port Talbot in South Wales
- Press Pressure
- 150 detectives, 200 suspects and dozens of buccal swabs, and still no arrests made.
- A huge police investigation involving approximately 150 detectives, 200 suspects and dozens of buccal swabs took place
- An Idea
- No matches were found in the National DNA Database (NDNAD)
- A bit too late
- A lot of controversy started to boil up questioning the effectiveness of the police system
- In 2000, Dr Jonathan Whitaker, a forensic scientist, analysed the 28-year-old crime scene samples using the new Low Copy Number DNA technique, but no matches were found again. The next year he attempted to search for potential relatives through familial DNA searching.
- As the murders had occurred in the 1970s, it was entirely plausible that the killer may have had children who could have their DNA stored in the NDNAD. The DNA profile of a car thief Paul Kappen was found, sharing 50% of the murderer’s DNA. It was later established that this was the son of the man responsible for the 1973 crimes. However when detectives visited the ex-wife of Kappen, they were unfortunately informed that he had passed away ten years previously due to lung cancer.
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