From The Telegraph:Thousands of "cold cases" could be reopened thanks to a new technique to analyse DNA from crime scenes.
The Forensic Science Service (FSS) hailed the breakthrough as the most significant advancement in the science "in a decade".
Scientists will now be able to use the technique in all serious crimes, after it proved successful in a series of pilots.
Police forces and forensic scientists are also combing the archives of thousands of so-called "cold cases", in which no-one has been convicted of the crime, for DNA samples which could be reassessed.
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