Lynda Mann

Lynda Rosemary Mann was a girl killed in 1983 while walking along a footpath in England. DNA testing linked her to the 1986 murder of Dawn Ashworth and to Colin Pitchfork. This was the first case where DNA analysis convicted a murderer.

Case
Mann was attacked while walking home on November 21, 1983. Pitchfork had raped and strangled her; the body was discovered the next day.

A man now known to have been coerced by police, confessed to the murders but was exonerated by DNA testing. Colin Pitchfork was later identified as the killer and was convicted in 1987.