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Which development helped overturn Walter McMillian's Alabama conviction?
Alabama prosecutors dropped all charges after a state investigation confirmed McMillian's innocence.
What breakthrough identified Ted Kaczynski after the Unabomber manifesto appeared?
Kaczynski's brother supplied older essays, and FBI analysts found distinctive language matching the manifesto.
Which exoneree became the first U.S. death-row prisoner cleared through DNA testing?
Congress later named a federal post-conviction DNA testing grant program for Bloodsworth.
Which encrypted platform supplied evidence for UK organized-crime convictions under Operation Venetic?
French and Dutch teams infiltrated EncroChat in 2020; the NCA then linked aliases and messages to UK defendants.
In the Colin Pitchfork investigation, what did DNA profiling accomplish before finding Pitchfork?
Genetic profiles cleared Richard Buckland after he confessed to one case, showing DNA could exonerate as well as identify.
How did the 1963 Great Train Robbers stop the Royal Mail train?
Fingerprints on a Monopoly board at the farm hideout helped police identify members of the gang.
Which forensic method produced the 2001 breakthrough linking Gary Ridgway to victims?
Investigators used preserved evidence and newer DNA testing to link Ridgway to victims. He pleaded guilty to 48 aggravated first-degree murder counts in 2003.
How did the Chowchilla school bus victims escape their underground trailer in 1976?
Driver Ed Ray and two older children led the effort after the group spent about 16 hours underground.
Which detail on a ransom bill led investigators to Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh case?
A gas station attendant wrote the plate number on a gold certificate, which investigators traced to Hauptmann.
Where did Thomas Jennings leave the fingerprints used in the landmark 1911 People v. Jennings case?
The Illinois Supreme Court admitted the railing prints, helping establish fingerprint evidence in U.S. courts.