Mrs Bates was killed in front of her daughter Xanthe and her husband Victor who were both badly beaten during the raid.

BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Nottinghamshire | Blunkett says killer will be found

Xanthe, 34, also appealed for help in finding who shot her mother.

BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Nottinghamshire | Blunkett says killer will be found

Less than a month after I mentioned a new fingerprinting technique using electrostatic charges, forensic scientist Dr. Xanthe Spindler of the University of Technology Sydney in Australia has announced a wildly different new fingerprinting technique.

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