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Heard, they are putting together dna profiling to try and identify the more than two dozen people, the bodies they have recovered so far and continue to recover from that boat that went down in a fire. how difficult is it to identify these people at this point? i've heard you do an fbi profile. a dna profile? >> of the dna profile, depending upon the remains and what they e able to glean from those persons who may be found under water, they may be able to identify individuals by facial recognition, identification on the persons. for those people who it goes beyond that, where they have been bu...

You can get a range of results from a good profile to an unusable one but we've reached the point where we can create a genetic profile from just 10 to 20 cells. since the early days in the development of d.n.a. profiling 35 years ago the amounts of genetic material needed to get a result have fallen steadily. every cell nucleus in the body contains a person's entire genome packed into 23 pairs of chromosomes. half of your d.n.a. comes from your mother and the other half is from your father forensic investigators compare stretches of d.n.a. they can vary widely from individual to individual se...

And the profile from a person who has nothing to do with the crime. such false d.n.a. positives have confused a number of cases like this one the same d.n.a. was identified at 35 separate crime scenes it appeared that one woman had been committing crimes for 15 years burglary theft even murder investigators searched for her fever actually but a few months later they had to admit the notorious phantom was just that. the criminal mastermind didn't exist the d.n.a. was that of a worker and a medical equipment company whose job it was to package cotton swabs for crime scenes. that contamination le...

>> same story, the wife, the brother, the mother, the friends of serial killers never suspect that they could be serial killers. >> on january 22nd, 1988, colin pitchfork became the first person ever to be convicted in a murder case solved by dna profiling and was sentenced to life in prison. for his part in the deception, ian kelly was convicted of conspiracy to pervert justice and sentenced to an 18 month prison sentence which was suspended. >> we've learned a lot from this death of these two girls. the scientific advancements that have been made with dna has spread itself throughout the wor...

That was quite right. healthy skepticism of an entirely new technology. we did retesting. it was done independently all pointing to the same conclusion, namely that buckland was not the guilty part party in the case. >> after four months in custody richard buckland was released open became the first person in the world to be exonerated of murder through the use of dna profiling. >> i had no doubt whatsoever he would have been found guilty had it not been for the dna evidence and jailed for life. that was a remarkable occurrence. >> but why did richard buckland confess to a crime he didn't comm...