DNA helps net burglar after 8 years
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Blood taken from a leech found at an Australian crime scene was used ...Source: AFP
The burglar must never have expected to be apprehended when he broke into a woman’s house, broke open her safe and stole $550. It happened in 2001. The woman reported the break-in, the police came to the scene of the crime and the only clue they could lay hands on was a leech inside the safe. Since the woman had never had any leech in her house, the inference was that it came from the robber. A gap of 7 years followed. In 2008, the robber was hauled up for drug offences and while carrying out the DNA profiling it was found to match with the DNA of the blood samples taken from the leech!!! The burglar has pleaded guilty to the robbery.
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- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 24 days agoPeter Alec Cannon, 54, pleaded guilty last week to an aggravated armed robbery in 2001. Police found a blood-filled leech at the crime scene and matched the DNA to Cannon in 2008 when he was arrested on drugs charges.
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 26 days agoAustralian authorities have identified a robber after matching his blood to a leech found at the scene of the crime. A group of thieves robbed 71-year-old Fay Olson in her home eight years ago, taking a little more than $500. Police found a leech at...
- News Source: The independent | 26 days agoWhen Tasmanian police arrived at the home of an elderly victim of armed robbery in 2001, they found only one piece of forensic evidence: a leech, freshly engorged with blood. They bagged it and extracted the blood for DNA profiling, with little hope...
- News Source: United Press International | 26 days agoAustralian police say they've accomplished a first -- using a blood sample from a leech to identify a criminal. A leech found at the scene of a 2001 robbery of an elderly Lilydale, Tasmania, woman was analyzed by a forensic lab, which kept DNA...
- News Source: CNN | 26 days agoIf not for a lowly leech, Peter Alec Cannon might not be in the heap of trouble he's in now. In what Australian officials are calling a first in their country -- and possibly in the world -- police used DNA extracted from a leech that bit Cannon...
- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | 26 days agoForensic science researcher Sally Kelty said on Tuesday that the case could be the first in which investigators have used DNA extracted from a bloodsucker like a leech or a mosquito to solve a crime. "It's certainly unique and shows how the...
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