forensic investigation: investigation into a murder

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Darnell Hartsfield On the 31st of September the man accused of the infamous KFC murder was convicted and given 5 life sentences. Darnell Hartsfield was convicted of perjury and the murder of 5 people, in a crime that was committed over 25 years ago. Recent DNA evidence was used to link Darnell Hartsfield to the scene of the crime. 25 years ago during a robbery of a KFC restaurant in Texas, 5 people were kidnapped, they were then driven over 100 miles in a place called oooejt where the people were executed on the side of the road. David Maxwell, 20, Mary Tyler, 37, Opie Ann Hughes, 39, and Joey Johnson, 20 were workers in the restaurant and Monte Landers, 19, was a friend visiting. The restaurant had closed for the night, the workers were cleaning, ready to go home, when 3 men broke into the restaurant and started the rob the place. The men then took the people into a van and moved them 100 miles before executing them. This crime became know as the KFC murders and the police were pressured into finding out who murdered them. There was little forensic clues as to who murdered these people, but a former Texas Ranger Stuart Dowell, who originally work on the case suspected a man called Mr. Mankins and found a finger nail at the scene of the crime, which by expert opinion found that the finger nail belonged to him. These were however only confirmed by how the fingernail unique markings matched up to the finger nail of the suspect. With this evidence Mr. Mankins was found guilty of the murders and the public was happy. However, on an appeal by Mr. Mankins the fingernail matching was found to be inconclusive. During the case a forensic scientist Rhonda Roby, a world renowned expert in DNA was asked to run a DNA test on the fingernail used to originally convict Mr. Mankins. She started running test on known finger nail clippings and blood sample from her

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