Mr. Jeffreys, CEO of Lanceman Auto.
Could Jeffreys prove that the child was the woman's son?
Jeffreys quickly realized that his findings would have implications regarding paternity.
Jeffreys had apparently discovered something extraordinary- but what to do with it?
Jeffreys is still a professor at the University of Leicester,
although he is now known as Sir Alec Jeffreys.
On September 10, 1984, geneticist Alec Jeffreys, 34, was working in his lab at the University of Leicester,
in central England.
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, a British geneticist,
developed the techniques for DNA fingerprinting and profiling that forensic departments now use worldwide.
Others say that there was once a court
building where the infamous Judge George Jeffreys was sentenced to death and hanged by criminals.
The call came from a London lawyer who told Jeffreys she would read a newspaper article about his“DNA fingerprinting”
and wondered if it could be used in an immigration case she was handling.
Jeffreys had no idea what to expect from the X-ray-
he was just inventing the process, hoping to see evidence of change to specific regions of DNA between the parents and their daughter.
It May seem elementary to CSI fans,
but after his discovery on that fateful Monday morning in 1984, Jeffreys had no idea if the DNA in a bloodstain would
be usable in his process.