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Article: How cops tracked cold-case suspectEXCLUSIVE.
- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2008
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The man accused of raping and murdering Marie Jamieson was forced to give up his DNA after he was convicted of a minor shoplifting charge.
The subsequent "hit" with a previously unknown male DNA profile found with Ms Jamieson's dead body led to the 51-year-old sickness beneficiary's arrest this week, seven years after she was found dumped behind a factory in West Auckland.
The Weekend Herald has learned the arrested man was convicted of theft - shoplifting to a value less than $500 - and then discharged in the Waitakere District Court in April.
The conviction would have allowed police to issue a compulsion order to take a DNA sample.
Under the Criminal ...