The Blooding - Joseph Wambaugh

Written by Joseph Wambaugh
Read by George K. Wilson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 9hrs 53min
Publisher : ‎Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio; (April 4, 2019)

Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann’s savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.

Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone’s throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than 4,000 men before the real killer is found.

Publishers Weekly
“In this venture into true crime, Wambaugh triumphs again. Here he turns to Leicestershire, England, and the slayings of two teenagers, Lynda Mann in 1983, and Dawn Ashworth three years later, killings that were eventually solved through scientist Alec Jeffreys’s discovery of “genetic fingerprinting.” This discovery was made, ironically, at Leicester University, close to the scene of the crimes, and the technique may revolutionize detection. Wambaugh, ever a master of plotting, first leads readers into suspecting the wrong man and then switches to the actual murderer and the taking of thousands of blood samples in one of the more bizarre investigations ever conducted. Genetic fingerprinting was determined to be foolproof, and the real culprit, Colin Pitchfork, was identified without question. As Wambaugh’s fans have come to expect, this is an eminently readable and most impressive book.”

Wambaugh has written 5 non-fiction. The Onion Field and Fire Lover are also uploaded. The other 2 books have never been recorded.