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Series

Code of a Killer

2015 · 1 season · 2 episodes · Ended · ITV1

Drama, Crime, Mystery

TMDB 7.2 · 57 votes

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Based on the extraordinary true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in catching a double murderer.

Episodes

  • S01E01Episode 12015-04-0690m

    David Threlfall takes the role of David Baker who between 1983 and 1987 headed up the investigation into the brutal murders of two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.

  • S01E02Episode 22015-04-1390m

    With plenty of publicity, the local teenager is released and the world is introduced to DNA fingerprinting for the first time. In the villages of Narborough and Enderby there is a complete sense of fear that a murderer is living amongst them.

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