In 1985, the night of March 24th , a girl named Michelle Mallin tried to park her car in the parking lot besides the church. She opened the car door but a man walked by, he asked for a wire jumper to light up his vehicle. “Sorry, sir, I do not......”She didn’t even finished her sentence, the man opened the car door and put a knife besides her neck. She was threatened and not able to scream for help when the man seized the control of the vehicle and drove to a small town. The tragedy happened just in one night, this girl was raped by the man, and a watch, wallet, 2 dollars were stolen from her.
At the same time 25years old boy named Timothy Brian Cole[1]which also studied in Texas Tech University, was accused to be a suspect of this crime. The girl Mallin saw his photo and insisted clearly that he must be the criminal. Which later on, evidences and testimonies both affirmed that this crime was done by Cole. Even the witnesses can confirm that Cole was playing cards with his brothers that night and the evidence leave in the alibi was not 100% came from Cole, but the juries still think that Cole was guilty. And the final verdict put him into prison for 25 years and he ended his life in 1999.…show more content… CODIS, the Combined DNA Index System, it is a national DNA database that's funded by the FBI, which can be used to identify possible suspects and facilitate the process of solving crimes. The technology that we are talking about are forensic evidence that are able to be used in different level of crimes—— the
