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A Crime of Evidence Alone: The Murder of Claire Josephs

A Crime of Evidence Alone: The Murder of Claire Josephs

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A newlywed found murdered. No weapon. No witnesses. No motive.

In 1968, 20-year-old Claire Josephs was brutally killed in her home in Bromley, England. What followed would change criminal justice forever.

With nothing but blood typing, fiber analysis, and emerging forensic science, investigators built a case against Roger Payne—marking the first murder conviction in England based solely on forensic evidence.

But decades later, after appeals, an escape, and a new identity… questions still linger.

Did science get it right—or was there more to the story?

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