Article: How cops tracked cold-case suspectEXCLUSIVE.

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.

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