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Book Review of The Blooding

The Blooding
The Blooding
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Fiftenn 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 dragbet 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 crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.
THE DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF THE FIRST MURDER CASE SOLVED BY GENETIC "FINGERPRINTING"