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Lynette White Murder Case Essay

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February 14, 1988, at 21:17 hours in Cardiff, Wales, Lynette Deborah White was murdered. She was virtually decapitated and had as many as 50-plus stab and slash wounds. The South Wales Police issued a photo of a bloodstained room and a sketch of an older white male. In November of 1988, the police charged five black and mixed-race men with White's murder. But, out of the five suspects, I believe Lynette White’s murderer to be Jeffrey Gafoor because there was a DNA match and he confessed to the murder.
In September of 2000, police re-opened the murder case following a cold case review. Detectives worked with a forensic science team led by Angela Gallop. There was lots of evidence of the murderer including a tiny piece of bloody cellophane had

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