1

Can be reopened and re-investigated

Cold cases

Evidence properly preserved

DNA databases

2

DNA of known criminals

Cold cases

DNA from old crimes

Check against databases

DNA from newly committed crimes

3

Lesley Molseed

Lesley Molseed

4

Sexually assaulted

Lesley Molseed, 1975

Stabbed to death

Body left out on the

Yorkshire moors

Stefan Kiszko

5

Stefan Kiszko

Innocent

Wrongfully imprisoned

16 years

6

Extracted DNA

2006

Ronald Castree

Match to Ronald Castree

Charged with the sexual assault

and murder of Lesley Molseed

7

Problems

Most of the original witnesses are dead

1

Crime occurred over 30 years ago

Ronald Outteridge

8

Problems

Is there proof that the sexual assault and

murder were done by the same person?

2

“To do that it would be necessary to prove that

the semen was deposited during the murder of

the little girl and I found no evidence to show that

was the case. It might have been, it might not."

9

Problems

Lesley Molseed abducted, sexually assaulted,

released, abucted again, and then murdered

Reasonable?

Ronald Castree convicted and sentenced