Editing Colin Pitchfork (section)

==In popular culture==
Pitchfork’s crimes were originally chronicled in the 1989 book ''The Blooding'' by Joseph Wambaugh.<ref name="Wambaugh 1995">{{cite book |last1=Wambaugh |first1=Joseph |title=The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting" |date=1 March 1995 |publisher=Bantam |isbn=978-0-553-76330-0 |language=English}}</ref> 

Pitchfork's crimes were aired on the American true crime series ''[[Forensic Files]]'' in October 1996.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

The killings featured in a 2002 episode of ''[[Real Crime]]'' "Cracking the Killer's Code".  Pitchfork was played by [[John Duttine]].{{cn|date=May 2024}}

In 2014, [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] commissioned a two-part television drama, ''[[Code of a Killer]]'', based on Pitchfork's crimes and the creation of DNA profiling. It starred [[John Simm]] as researcher [[Alec Jeffreys]] and [[David Threlfall]] as David Baker, the lead police detective.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marlow |first1=Lee |title=Code of a Killer: ITV film crew shoot in Leicester for two part drama on how DNA profiling snared double-child killer |url=http://leicestermercury.co.uk/Code-Killer-ITV-fiolm-crew-shoot-Leicester-drama/story-23837626-detail/story.html |access-date=23 March 2021 |work=[[Leicester Mercury]] |publisher=[[Local World]] |date=31 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101233605/http://leicestermercury.co.uk/Code-Killer-ITV-fiolm-crew-shoot-Leicester-drama/story-23837626-detail/story.html |archive-date=1 November 2014 |location=[[Leicester]]}}</ref> Pitchfork was played by [[Nathan Wright (actor)|Nathan Wright]]. The drama was the first broadcast in two 90-minute episodes, on 6 and 13 April 2015. It was subsequently reformatted as three episodes and released on DVD.

Pitchfork's crimes are also the focus of an episode of the Sky series ''How I Caught the Killer''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sky.com/watch/title/series/9d9f4a65-878c-4a43-a8c0-f8661a67163a/how-i-caught-the-killer/episodes/season-1/episode-5|title=How I Caught The Killer|website=Sky}}</ref>