when the dna database was introduced in the 1990s, detectives were hopeful. it was compared to all of the people that had dna held on that national database, but there was no match. the first of this month s reconstructions tells the story of a 25 year old woman who lived alone in a bedsit at tunbridge wells in kent. and tunbridge wells. the team tried asking for help on the bbc s crimewatch programme, which was to feature the tunbridge wells murders twice over the years. we had samples from the scene. we had the offender s dna from the scene. they d been kept. over the years. that had that had been kept. so we recovered them from the scene and they re always kept in undetected cases in for new developments in forensic science. the months turned into years. a huge murder investigation into a cold case. at kent police, it was clear
that trainer was the same as left the mark on wendy s cuff in blood. a golden nugget piece of evidence. bingo. we found a note in a diary that he d visited buster browns, which is where caroline pierce was manageress. we also found items from supasnaps, where wendy worked. it is clear to me that he knew wendy knell, or who she was, he knew caroline he has targeted them for death. by having that really good current understanding of his life history, we were able to prove that he was lying. take a seat. we were able to get a dna sample from him, and that was an exact match from the offender profile that we d found that the scene of wendy, and a match to what we now knew from the forensic link to caroline. at that point, we thought, here, we ve done it. we now knew david fuller was the offender. but then we found something else. he s identified the victims. in 1989, david fuller secured a job at the kent
he has targeted them for death. by having that really good current understanding of his life history, we were able to prove that he was lying. take a seat. we were able to get a dna sample from him, and that was an exact match from the offender profile that we d found that the scene of wendy, and a match to what we now knew from the forensic link to caroline. at that point, we thought, here, we ve done it. we now knew david fuller was the offender. but then we found something else. he s identified the victims. in 1989, david fuller secured a job at the kent and sussex hospital. that friday evening, we were just sort of tidying everything up, ready for him to go to court the following morning. and we get the camera. he was an electrician by trade and he was a maintenance man.
of a 25 year old woman who lived alone in a bedsit at tunbridge wells in kent. and tunbridge wells. the team tried asking for help on the bbc s crimewatch programme, which was to feature the tunbridge wells murders twice over the years. we had samples from the scene. we had the offender s dna from the scene. they d been kept. over the years. that had that had been kept. so we recovered them from the scene and they re always kept in undetected cases in for new developments in forensic science. the months turned into years. a huge murder investigation into a cold case. at kent police, it was clear that the leads had run out. we scaled down the inquiry, but one thing that we ve never done is close the inquiry. the old kent police headquarters would soon be earmarked for closure, but in 2019, the tunbridge wells case came back to life.
kent and sussex hospital. that friday evening, we were just sort of tidying everything up, ready for him to go to court the following morning. and we get the camera. he was an electrician by trade and he was a maintenance man. there s some stuff stuck on the back. of that one as well. and then i got a call. they had found some pictures. it looks like he s got - some hard drives in there, i would say. he had access to all areas of the hospital, carrying out essential maintenance where it was needed. but we found he had a particular interest in the mortuary. here s a sandisk one i that i can read there on the front, - so that s a hard drive. on opening the hard drives, i m looking at a mortuary and i m looking ata man sexually abusing what are clearly dead people. and he had filmed it. photographed it. every second.