The Blooding (1989)

by Joseph Wambaugh

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Wambaugh writes well and this book is no exception. I gave it a 3.5-star rating because I think he could have left out about 100 pages of detail and made this a better book. It seems like he wanted to get in every single fact that he gathered in his research, and I found the level of detail tedious at times. Otherwise, this was a fascinating true crime story that read like a novel. An excellent example of the true crime genre. (

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labwriter | Mar 31, 2010 |

Absolutely chilling, suspenseful, intriguing and heartbreaking all at once.
An insightful look at the process of identifying the victims and their attackers and seeing the story unfold from the eyes of each person involved. It's most amazing how certain events lead to the missing yet eventual capture of the real killer. (

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musicworks | Jun 2, 2008 |

Very gruesome, yet true account of the first murder case solved by genetic fingerprinting in England. (

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The Blooding

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The Blooding

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1989

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Edgar Award Nominee (Fact Crime, 1990)

New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 1989)

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Author's Note:

This is the true story of the Narborough Murder Enquiry, the world's first murder case to be resolved by "genetic fingerprinting," a stunning scientific discovery that may well revolutionize forensic science as dramatically as fingerprinting did in the 19th century.

As always I have re-created events only when my information comes from a reliable witness or can be independently corroborated.

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For
my father
with appreciation for the genetic fingerprint

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They say that in remote little English villages a new-comer can be accepted by the locals provided he buys property, pays his bills, and stays in continuous residence for about ninety-five years.

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THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION
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 police 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 criem annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.

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Here is Wambaugh's most mesmerizing book to date: the haunting and shocking account of two near-perfect crimes in a quiet English village, unravelled by the headline-making discovery that is revolutionizing crime detection--"genetic finger-printing." (Nonfiction)((Bantam Books.

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