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. we had a breakthrough. we developed the tights that caroline was wearing when she was found in order to be able to get, for the first time ever, a dna sample that we believed is from the suspect who had killed caroline in 1987. but back then, there was nothing to compare it with. the police were not taking dna from people, because we didn t have the power we didn t even know the technology was going to be there. dna profiles are a bit like car number plates. one plate, one car. there s been a register of plates since 190a. the database of police dna
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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.