HUTCHINSON, PAUL: Forensics: Catching a Killer TV - A Killer’s Mistake TV -
A young woman’s murderer eludes capture for decades. But it’s a case detectives refuse to let lie. And a revolutionary forensic technique allows them to finally trace the killer. Forensics: Catching a Killer V: A Killer in the Family, Sky 2021
Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, 30 October 1983: The disappearance of sixteen-year-old trainee hairdresser Colette Aram … Colette’s body was found just over three kilometres from her home … She’d been sexually assaulted and strangled. ibid.
A nationwide hunt was launched to find the mysterious man in the red [Ford] Fiesta. ibid.
A new test had been developed that would prove a game-changer: it was called Low Copy Number Testing … ‘It could target smaller amounts of DNA’. ibid. rozzer’s technician
‘There were no matching subject records on the national DNA database.’ ibid.
Familial DNA allows investigators to identify close relatives of a potential offender, which in turn could lead them to their subject. ibid.
Paul Hutchinson’s demeanour during questioning aroused suspicions … ‘A full match.’ ibid.
‘He dried his hands on a paper towel which he put in the bin.’ A Killer’s Mistake s1e2: Paul Hutchinson, rozzer
The paper towel and the missing girl became part of a 22-year murder mystery. ibid.
‘He got off by watching young girls.’ ibid. rozzer
‘She [Colette] had been raped, strangled and her body had been left in a sexually provocative pose.’ ibid.
His mistakes would one day catch up with him. ibid.
HUTCHISON, BRANDON: I Am a Killer TV -
On January 1st 1996, Brandon Hutchison shot dead brothers Brian and Ronald Yates. I Am a Killer s2e2: A Silent Order, CI 2019
I was a drug addict. That’s pretty much it. ibid.
Hyatt, Keith: see Miscarriages of Justice: White, Barri & Keith Hyatt
HYLAND, GERALD: Forensic Investigators TV -
12:00 a.m. Sunday 27th Junly 1980, Hobart, Tasmania: Amanda Carter and her sister were out on the town celebrating her 22nd birthday. But the cheer would turn to despair when Amanda failed to come home. Forensic Investigators s2e8: Carter
A revolution in forensic science was about to happen. ibid.
‘We asked him [taxi driver Hyland] for his blood and he refused.’ ibid.
At approximately 3 a.m. she separated from her sister and the two men she had been celebrating with to catch a taxi home. Numerous cab drivers had seen a woman matching her description near the taxi rank. Some believed she had got into the taxi owned by Wayne Hyland. ibid.
A suspicious stain on the back seat of the car that was now yielding new information. ibid.
Six weeks later her body was found dumped on the banks of the Derwent River. ibid.
1993: ‘We put all the allegations to him again.’ ibid.
His DNA fingerprint was clearly seen in the compound stain of the backseat of his taxi. ibid.