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Murder of Leanne Tiernan

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Monday, August 20 2001

By: Kendall Johnson

Questions

Dog Hair Found As DNA Evidence

  • What are some other cases that use animal DNA?
  • How much have the police changed since 2000? or how has forensics? (Ex. Amber alerts are used now)

Dog hair on the dog collar used as evidence

Leanne Abducted and Murdered

Tiernan found dead after abduction 9 months earlier

New Evidence On the Murder

My Opinion on the case

Using the dog DNA, police have found...

My opinion on this case is that the crimes committed were completely avoidable and pointless. It shouldn't have happened in the first place. John Taylor had no reason to commit this crime and it's terrible. This crime ruined the Tiernan's lives just because Taylor decided to do it. I feel this way because first obviously it's abduction and murder those are devastating experiences not just for the victim but for those around them. But, also because of Taylor's disregard of others. How can a person just decide to do this? Hearing about cases like this makes my expectations in huamnity fail cause they don't think about what their actions will do to the victim, and everyone else to close to them.

On November 26 2000, 16 year old Leanne Tiernan was abducted on her way home in West Yorkshire, England after shopping with her friend Sarah Whitehouse. 9 months later, a man walking his dog found her buried in a shallow grave inside a floral duvet cover. She had a black plastic bag over her head held in place by a dog collar, scarf, and a cable tie. Her wrists were bound in cable ties and she was wrapped in green plastic bag liners. A few days before the body recovered a retired couple saw a man carrying a floral bag from his car to the woods. The pathologist found that she had not been there since November, she had been strangled and stored in low temperatures.

John Taylor was a poacher seen in the Lindley woods where Leanne's body was found. At Taylor's house, the police found the cable ties which were unusual because they were used for exclusively for Royal mail. They also found another collar of the dog. Then small amounts of Taylor's hair were found in the scarf that showed the hair shafts matched Taylor.

After searching over 800 houses, 1500 gardens, outbuildings, sheds on her route home they realized there was hair on the dog collar. This is the was first time for a British criminal case to use dog DNA for evidence. It was sent to a university in Texas for analysis. Police found that the dog belonged to John Taylor as well as the dog supplies. It would have been perfect evidence, but the dog died so police couldn't link it to Taylor.

46-year-old John Taylor pleaded guilty to the kidnap and murder of Leanne Tiernan on 26 November 2000

Works Cited

Effects of This Case

John Taylor Charged With Murder

Taylor found guilty and significance of case

  • One effect is people's new awareness of crimes such as this. People will become more cautious, nervous, and jumpy when alone in a situation like this.
  • What might happen in the future as a result is more security rules, or laws. Keeping people from being in this position, or being the ones to commit it.
  • This also effects people around us by being more alert for ourselves and also others around us.
  • To keep these crimes from happening less people will be together more, reliable, supportive, and so on. This could prevent abduction from happening if we aren't alone as much.
  • Elivdge, Suzanne. "Forensic Cases: The Murder of Leanne Tiernan." <i>Exploreforensics</i>. Exploreforensics, 2 Nov. 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.
  • "John Taylor: Killer in the Woods." <i>Crimeinvestigation</i>. A+E Networks UK, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.
  • Swank, Morgan. <i>The Murder of Leanne Tiernan</i>. Digital image. <i>Listverse</i>. Trademark of Listmark, 22 Mar. 2014. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.
  • <i>Leanne Tiernan</i>. Digital image. <i>Wikipedia</i>. Wikipedia Foundation Inc., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.
  • <i>John Taylor</i>. Digital image. <i>BBC World News</i>. BBC, 8 July 2002. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.

Taylor was arrested in October 2001. He was sentenced to 2 life sentences and given an additional 2 life sentences for other crimes he had committed. This event was important enough to be in the news because Taylor committed crimes before, and it devastated the Tiernan family. It was also the first British case to use animal DNA. That significance shows even the most unlikely evidence can have a huge impact on a case. People should care about this because it could happen to anyone. It doesn't just happen to others, so everyone should be more cautious.

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