The Blooding - Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Wambaugh

Category: Detective

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Tags: Detective, True Crime, Adults

Length: 9hrs 53min Publisher : Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio; (April 4, 2019), Fifteen-year-old Lynda Manns 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 stones 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 4,000 men before the real killer is found., Publishers Weekly In this venture into true crime, Wambaugh triumphs again. Here he turns to Leicestershire, England, and the slayings of two teenagers, Lynda Mann in 1983, and Dawn Ashworth three years later, killings that were eventually solved through scientist Alec Jeffreyss discovery of genetic fingerprinting. This discovery was made, ironically, at Leicester University,