Inside Forensics: Solving a Murder in the Mountains | 03

Crime Beat

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In 1990, the peace and tranquility found in Banff National Park was shattered by the first murder there in twenty years and there was a lot of pressure on police to solve the case. There were no witnesses to the homicide and only one key piece of evidence that could positively identify the killer: DNA. It would become a transformative technology as the then-emerging science helped investigators as they worked to solve a true whodunnit. Join Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt as she shares an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at forensic DNA testing with a pioneer of this technology in Canada and one of the members of that original investigative team in Inside Forensics: Solving a murder in the mountains. Contact: Instagram: @nancy.hixt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/ Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.1	In 1990, the peace and tranquility found in Banff National Park was shattered by the first murder there in 20 years.
0:53.6	And there was a lot of pressure on police to solve the case.
0:58.0	There were no witnesses to the homicide
1:00.4	and only one key piece of evidence
1:03.1	that could positively identify the killer.
1:06.5	DNA.
1:08.2	It would become a transformative technology as the then-emerging science helped
1:13.6	investigators as they worked to solve a true who-done it.
1:17.6	I think now, today, DNA is more widely accepted. Rarely does a specialist have to go testify on a case.
1:30.9	I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter with Global News.
1:35.4	Today, on Crime Beat, I share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at forensic DNA testing
1:42.1	with a pioneer of this technology in our country and one of the
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