Police are carrying out a mass DNA screening in the hope of solving the murder of a teenage girl exactly 25 years ago.
Trainee hairdresser Colette Aram, 16, was raped and strangled as she walked to her boyfriend's house.
The death led to a huge manhunt and the case was the first to be featured on BBC's Crimewatch in 1983, but her killer has never been caught.
However, new techniques mean that police have since been able to obtain a DNA profile of the person responsible.
A dedicated team of officers has begun following up the fresh evidence in an operation codenamed Odyssey.
DNA swabs have already been taken from more than 800 past and present residents of the village of Keyworth in Nottinghamshire, where the attack took place.
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Expect to see more like this as they will get everyone in the UK's DNA by whatever method they can.
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