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Episode 131 40 years.

War baby here with another episode of murderous minors.

DNA is a reliable method by which to solve cases and has led directly to the arrests of perpetrators who most thought would never be caught.

It's also been used to prove the innocence of convicted individuals by pointing directly to someone else.

This week on murderous minors, we look at the January 1976 murder of 15-year-old Janet Commons in Flint in the north of Wales, UK.

Following a nearly month-long search for the killer, two members of a traveling caravan community were arrested for Janet's murder.

18-year-old Noel Jones and a 20-year-old friend.

In July 2017, Jones testified at Mold Crown Court about his arrest 41 years earlier, saying that he felt he was arrested because he lived as a quote gypsy back then and couldn't read or write.

Describing his arrest that took place as he exited a pub, he recalled how quote, I didn't know what was happening to me.

I happened to fit the bill. I was like a scapegoat. That's what it felt like.

Jones said that police acted like they knew they had the right guy and that he was interrogated, quote, until they got what they wanted.

A legend that he was merely, quote, agreeing to whatever they wanted me to say. I was just lost. I didn't know what was going on.

Everything was going so fast and they were just saying to me, you done it, you done it, you done it. It seemed like forever.

One of his signed statements from the time of his arrest was read aloud and Jones said that his previous admission was, quote, 100% not true.

I did not know this person and I would not commit this crime. I had no reason to commit this crime. I had a girlfriend at the time and we were happy together.

I had plenty of friends. I had no reason to do this. But back in February 1976, he seemed like he was Janet's killer, especially after he confessed to police.

When 15-year-old Janet comments came home from school on Wednesday, January 7, 1976, she asked her parents if she could go swimming with friends, but they thought she looked sick, so they told her it'd be best if she stayed home.

Instead, however, she reportedly snuck out to presumably join her friends, leaving a note in her room that said she would be home by 8.30pm.

But Janet never came home. A friend said that she'd left the swimming pool and headed back at 7.30pm and a different witness said that he'd seen Janet walking and laughing with two boys around 8.10pm.

Her father began looking for her around 10pm and roughly one hour later, he alerted police and a search of the area commenced.

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