In 2015, a mini tv series was released titled Code of a Killer, based on the crimes committed by British rapist and murderer, Colin Pitchfork. It was a three-part British police drama television series that tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys’ discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in apprehending teen rapist and murderer, Pitchfork.
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The cast members include;
- Nathan Wright as Colin Pitchfork.
- John Simm as Alec Jeffreys.
- David Threlfall as DCS David Baker.
- Lorcan Cranitch as DI Alan Madden.
- Jaz Deol as DC Taran Kholi.
- Andrew Tiernan as DS Geoff Taylor.
- Robert Glenister as DCC Chapman.
- Lydia Rose Bewley as Vicky Wilson.
- Paul Copley as Sidney Jeffreys.
- Hannah Walters as Kath Eastwood, and more.
The series was written by Michael Crompton, directed by James Strong, and produced by Priscilla Parish. It premiered in Australia on BBC First on September 19, 2015.
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Colin Pitchfork is the first person who was convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighboring Leicestershire villages in 1983 and 1986.
He committed his first known crime on November 21, 1985. It happened when a 15-year-old girl named Lynda Mann took a shortcut on her way home from babysitting instead of taking her normal route home. She was found raped and strangled on a deserted footpath known locally as Black Pad the next morning.
The second crime happened on July 21, 1986, when another 15-year-old girl named Dawn Ashworth left her home to visit a friend’s house. She was expected to return home at 9:30 pm, but she didn’t show up and her parents had to lodge a missing person complaint at the police station. Two days later, her lifeless body was found in a wooded area near a footpath called Ten Pound Lane. She had been beaten, savagely raped, and strangled.
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