From clearing people convicted of murder to identifying a monarch's remains, Michael Le Page is fascinated by The Secrets of Our DNA, an insider's must-read book
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The Secrets of Our DNA
Turi King
UK, Doubleday; US, Transworld Digital
In 1993, a 62-year-old woman in the town of Idar-Oberstein in Germany was found strangled with florist wire. DNA found on a coffee cup suggested that two people were present besides the victim and that one of the apparent killers was a woman.
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