This is 10-minute murder.

In 1987, two women were killed in the English town of Royal Turnbridge Wells,

20-year-old Caroline Pierce and 25-year-old Wendy Nell. They were both sexually assaulted and

strangled to death after an unidentified assailant broke into their homes.

The attacks were seemingly random, and investigators found themselves at a dead end.

Eventually, the case seemed to go cold.

As forensic technology becomes better, faster, and cheaper, this story becomes more and more common. DNA provides a

link to cases that went cold decades ago, providing justice that the victim's family had long

since given up on. In the case of the Kent-Bedsit murders, the DNA profile of the killer

was officially created in 2007, confirming what

the detectives on the case had always believed. Whoever the killer was, the same man was responsible

for both crimes. Law enforcement now had a DNA profile, but they were only able to compare it to

the samples of DNA that they already

had in their system.

If the killer didn't have a recent criminal record, there was no way to find a match.

Year by year, DNA technology became more and more useful.

And finally, in 2019, the Bedsit murders case was reviewed, and the DNA evidence collected from the crime scene was reanalyzed.

Forensic experts used familial DNA technology to identify people who were possibly related to the killer,

and people across the country were sent to visit all of these potential relatives,

hoping that they would give consent to giving a DNA sample.

One of the people whose door the police knocked on was a man named David Fuller.

Interestingly, David did have a criminal record.

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