The damning evidence forced Alexander Pacteau to confess.
A soil expert has told how she helped catch the killer of Irish student Karen Buckley, who was murdered in Glasgow.
He took Karen, a nurse from Cork, to his car where he strangled her and repeatedly hit her on the head with a foot-long wrench. Soil expert Professor Lorna Dawson told how the soil proved crucial in the case, and analysis of dirt found on Pacteau's boots also showed that he had been there.Speaking on BBC series Expert Witness, Professor Dawson, head of soil forensics at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, said:"The car was very clean but when we looked underneath it, we were able to recover some material.
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