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Case Study: Conviction Through Enhanced Fingerprint Identification

This article originally appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, December 1992. In March 1990, an unknown assailant sexually molested and fatally stabbed a young woman. At the crime scene, an...

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Hidden Evidence: Latent Prints on Human Skin

By Ivan Ross Futrell Mr. Futrell is a supervisory fingerprint specialist in the Latent Fingerprint Section of the FBI Laboratory in Washington, D.C. This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law...

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Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that...

Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this book is sure to appeal to people in the fingerprint profession, and to those who love history. The book centers around “The Shocking Tragedy at...

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Black Powder Processing

By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in “Minutiae”, The Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, No. 42, May-June 1997, p. 6. Although old-fashioned black powder is the workhorse of fingerprint...

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Burglary Investigations

By Daryl W. Clemens Burglary defined Burglary is sometimes also known as Home Invasion, or Breaking and Entering. The unlawful entry into the premises of another with intent to commit a felony (usually...

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Latent Prints in Dust

by Captain Curtis C. Frame, Criminal Investigation Division Jasper County Sheriff’s Office Jasper, Texas Article Copyright © 2000, Curtis C. Frame A Latent print found in dust, may be the only clue to...

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Fingerprinting the Dead

by Daryl W. Clemens Plastic Tape Obtaining fingerprints for identification is a long established law enforcement practice. When the practice started, is was most common to use printers ink applied to...

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Atmospheric Superglue Method

By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #44, Sep-Oct 1997. Some latent print technicians believe superglue should be listed second only to...

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Ninhydrin Processing

By Pat A. Wertheim This article originally appeared in Minutiae, the Lightning Powder Co. Newsletter, #45, November-December 1997. Perhaps the most productive and cost-effective method of developing...

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Finding Fingerprints with Super Glue Video from Make Magazine

Great video on how to super glue for fingerprints from the folks at Make magazine.

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Crime Scene Investigation and Fingerprinting

Interesting historic video on crime scene investigation and forensic science. I have a copy as well, that I purchased on DVD from the National Archives. The date on the original is a bit unclear, but...

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How reliable are Latent Fingerprint Examiners?

Research by Miami-Dade PD, via the NIJ.

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Ancient pigment re-purposed as a fingerprint powder

Interesting article from ABC News Australia: Egyptian blue delivers fingerprint boost to modern forensic science The pigment can help find fingerprints on polymer notes, among other things. Supplied:...

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Forensic Science: A Time of Transformation (NIJ)

This is not a long article, but I found parts of it quite interesting.  http://nij.gov/journals/277/pages/forensics.aspx ‘…the “growing debate among the scientific and legal communities” regarding the...

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Two Interesting Cold Case Articles

The first article has Michigan ties. Following up on a cold case led an Ohio medical examiner’s office to a fingerprint match and old files in Grand Haven that ID’d a man killed by a train in 1980. Via...

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Fingerprint Class

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