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Single mushroom atop ground cover of grass and old leaves
September 26, 2025

How I use nature to solve murders & catch serial killers

A little bent twig, or a footprint in the grass, or disturbed leaves means something to me … Tiny little things that people don’t notice. –Patricia Wiltshire

Minutes With hosts U.K. professor Patricia Wiltshire and takes you on a journey from her childhood love of nature to work as a botanist. Learn how a policeman’s curiosity during a murder case led him to Wiltshire and eventually put her on the path of forensic ecology. Since then, Wiltshire has used her skills on hundreds of criminal cases for both prosecution and defense teams.

→ View wideo at YouTube (LADBible Stories channel) ~28 minutes

DNA's double helix
September 24, 2025

1984: The beginning of ‘genetic fingerprinting’

A UK scientist’s research in a university lab on September 10, 1984 led to the groundbreaking discovery of genetic fingerprinting (or DNA fingerprinting). Learn about Alec Jeffrey’s ‘eureka’ moment and how this new technique in human genetics eventually led to the first murder conviction based on DNA forensic evidence.

→ See full story at the University of Leicester website.

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