The Blooding - Joseph Wambaugh

I would personaly like to add the fact that is not true to fact as is said before at all I am the younger sister of Lynda that he is talking about and I know that 90% of the facts he refers to are not true. I would advise not to read and help make sure the true criminal stays in jail!!!!

Incredible as it may seem, 'genetic fingerprinting',which we now take very much for granted as a major weapon in the armoury of police forces worldwide, was not discovered until 1984 - and then, almost by accident! Joseph Wambaugh's book "The Blooding" is the true story of it's first use in a criminal investigation. For those who know little about the techniques involved,'genetic fingerprinting', in its crime - fighting context, involves the recovery of often minute amounts of DNA from the evidence left at crime scenes (blood, semen, mucus etc). These can then be compared to samples taken from suspects, providing almost ...  Read the complete review