Southside Strangler

Southside Strangler refers to episode 6 of the first season of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on October 31, 1996.

Plot summary
FBI psychological profiling and DNA evidence identify Timothy Wilson Spencer who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia from 1984 through 1988.

The U.S. criminal justice system's first use of DNA profiling in a serial murder case frees an innocent man after he spent two years in prison and convicts the real killer.