Case Study On Dog Dna

Something new was also used in this case, dog DNA. During the investigation, police learned that Taylor had been walking his dog around the time Leanne’s body was placed in the woods. Forensic examiners found dog hairs on Leanne’s body. The dog hair DNA sample was sent to a university in Texas. It produced a partial profile for a dog. However, this was not able to be used against John Taylor because he had killed this dog before the evidence was found. The dog had been buried, in Taylor’s back garden, along with three other dogs. Although it could not be used against him in court, this was the first-time dog DNA had been used in a British criminal case.
Forensic scientists also found a strand of pink carpet fiber on Leanne’s clothes. This
Let us go back to the day that Leanne went missing. John Taylor was lurking in the woods, waiting for a victim. Leanne was walking through Houghley Gill, alone and at night. She became the perfect target for him. Taylor grabbed Leanne from behind, covered her mouth, blindfolded her and took her to his house. Taylor did not keep Leanne alive all those months. He killed her and then kept in her a freezer for the nine months she was missing. A witness reported seeing a big freezer when visiting the home but a couple of days later it was gone. Eventually, this freestanding freezer broke down, which police believe, is the reason he had to dump Leanne’s body and get rid of the
At first, Taylor admitted kidnapping Leanne but denied ever killing her. He said she had fallen and hit her head. He was the type to only confess when he had his back against the wall. As evidence kept coming up, he slowly started to confess to more actions he had committed. He confessed to police that he had been looking for a girl to be his victim the night Leanne went missing. After blindfolding her and wrapping her in his coat, his marched her on a twenty-two-minute walk to his house. He placed her on an old church pew in his kitchen and confessed that he had planned to rape her. There is evidence that he may have engaged in some sexual activity with Leanne Tiernan but nothing could be proved. Because there was no evidence for any sexual activity, he denied ever raping her.
Taylor’s trial was held in Leeds Crown Court. On the day of his trial, John Taylor changed his plea from only kidnapping her to guilty of murdering her as well. Taylor was sentences to two life sentences with a 30-year minimum. He was sent to the maximum-security Wakefield Prison along with other heinous criminals: Harold Shipman and Ian