A Very Private Murder
“She explained how she and a SOCO and a uniformed PC had visited the scenes of the robberies and taken swabs of all the places where a dog might mark its territory by peeing up against lamp posts, drainpipes and door jambs. These had been taken to the lab at Weatherton and tested for DNA. A small quantity of DNA, Serena told us, was flushed out during the act of passing urine – more so in a bitch than a dog but still a significant amount from a dog.
I’d worried about letting Serena conduct part ...of the interview but my concern was misplaced: the girl was doing good. Had she known that our new whiz-kid super was watching she’d probably have gone to pieces, but then again, perhaps not.
‘DNA was also obtained from hairs collected from the male pit bull cross known as Bruno, owned by Terence Bratt,’ Serena told us, ‘and this was compared with that obtained from the sites of the robberies. Bruno is a dog and dogs, unlike bitches, like to mark their territories. Four of the samples are perfect matches …’ And then she stopped.MoreLess
I’d worried about letting Serena conduct part ...of the interview but my concern was misplaced: the girl was doing good. Had she known that our new whiz-kid super was watching she’d probably have gone to pieces, but then again, perhaps not.
‘DNA was also obtained from hairs collected from the male pit bull cross known as Bruno, owned by Terence Bratt,’ Serena told us, ‘and this was compared with that obtained from the sites of the robberies. Bruno is a dog and dogs, unlike bitches, like to mark their territories. Four of the samples are perfect matches …’ And then she stopped.MoreLess
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