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The Murder Of Leanne Tiernan A high-profile English child abduction and murder involving a schoolgirl who was abducted less than one mile from her home

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The Murder Of Leanne Tiernan

The Murder Of Leanne TiernanA high-profile English child abduction and murder involving a schoolgirl who was abducted less than one mile from her home Leanne Tiernan

a 16 year old girl was found deep buried in a shallow grave in Lindley Woods in West Yorkshire, England in August 2011, by a man walking his dog.

She went missing in November 2000 when she was walking home from Christmas shopping with her best friend

Lindley Woods in West Yorkshire, England

Leanne was found with a black plastic bag over her head, held in place, with a dog collar, with a scarf, and cable tie around her neck. Her wrists were also bound up with cable ties and her body was wrapped in green plastic bin liners tied with twine.

When Leanne Tiernan disappeared, the police conducted the biggest search for a missing person in West Yorkshire.

The case involves up to 200 officers and hundreds of volunteers in the search of around 1,750 buildings, more than 1,400 house-to-house inquiries conducted, underwater searches of thirty-two drainage wells, the draining of a two-mile section of canal and the halting of household waste collections

DNA samples were taken from 140 men interviewed by the police in connection with the inquiry and twelve search warrants were executed at various addresses in Leeds. What the pathologist foundThe pathologist who examined her body found that she has been strangled and though Leanne had been missing since the previous November 2000, a post-mortem examination concluded that the body had not been in the woods since her disappearance, but based on decomposition, forensic experts believe that she had been kept in cold storage or a freezer after her death up until a few weeks before the body was found.How the Murderer was foundExamination of the dog collar, cable ties and twine used to bind the victim provided clues to Leannes murdererThe dog collar was traced back to a particular supplier whom had sold several of the collars to a man named John Taylor.

Cable ties were also found in John Taylors house. The cable ties were a type exclusively used by the Parcel Force, John Taylor's employer.

The type of twine was unusual and matched the one found in John Taylors home. The twine was used for rabbit netting.

Forensic Evidence

Hairs found in the scarf:

Scientist found small amounts of DNA in the hair shaft. A DNA examination of the hair took place , however, the hair shafts did not have enough DNA to conduct proper DNA profileForensic experts used Mitochondrial DNA testing Using these results, they managed to create a DNA profile from the minute amounts of DNA inside the hair shaft and it was a match to John Taylor

Animal DNAForensic investigators found dog hairs on Tiernans body The dog hair DNA sample was sent to a university in Texas, which had developed a DNA profiling technique for pedigreed pets. The university produced a partial profile for a dog but unfortunately police were unable to link this to Taylor, as the dog he owned at the time of Tiernans murder had subsequently died. This was the first time dog DNA had been used in a British criminal case.

John Taylor A killer in the woods

He was arrested in October 2011, and convicted of the murder to Leanne Tiernan

Taylor had abducted the girl from an unlit wooded path where she was walking home, took her back to his house where he sexually assaulted her and finally strangled her with a scarf.

Taylor later pleaded guilty and was given multiple life sentences for the rape and murder of Leanne Tiernan. Armed with Taylor's DNA profile, police examined additional unsolved incidents in the area and linked Taylor to two other rapes committed in the late 1980s for which he was also charged.

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