The identification was made possible using advanced fingerprint techniques and benefited from the upgrades of fingerprint information that have been made over the years to the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS).
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Forensic examiners can now determine whether a fingerprint was placed on a piece of paper before or after any text was printed on it.
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With this new information, detectives requested the Salt Lake City Police Department’s Crime Lab to conduct forensic testing on two latent fingerprints collected at the scene from 1974.
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The Knox County Regional Forensic Center has made a breakthrough in a decades-old homicide case, identifying a female victim whose body was discovered near a creek in November 1998.
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When VCU Department of Forensic Science graduate student Jamie Zaleta needed cartridge casings for her thesis project, the room became both a firing range and a classroom.
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Police say they’ve solved a 32-year-old cold-case killing of a Southern California man, and the suspect is already serving a prison sentence on an unrelated charge.
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GCU students are creating a database of shoe outsoles to help examiners identify the make and model of a shoe more efficiently.
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During a review of this case in 2021 by the Sheriff’s Homicide Unsolved Unit, forensic evidence left at the crime scene was resubmitted for examination, using current technology.
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Their goal is to have a resource card clipped to every provider ID badge or in the pockets of providers across Ohio State. That way they are better equipped when a survivor of sexual assault comes to them for care.
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In the most comprehensive analysis to date, researchers found that the shapes of fingerprints—whether they are circular, wavy, or winding—are influenced by the genes responsible for limb development instead of skin patterning.
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In less than one year, the sole detective in the newly launched Delray Beach Police Department’s Cold Case Unit has solved the 1983 murder of Carla Lowe by utilizing fingerprint technology not available 38 years ago.
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Scientists say they have developed a spectroscopy-based technique that can retrieve high-resolution fingerprint images from surfaces where conventional fingerprint imaging typically fails.
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Within two hours, forensic scientist Ed Rottman identified a potential suspect using the state’s automated fingerprint identification system and handed that person’s name over to Rochelle police.
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A declining number of employees at the State Crime Lab in Bismarck (North Dakota) has limited what evidence can be processed for law enforcement agencies, according to the attorney general.
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The regional program sees collaborative efforts in drug analysis, footwear examination, firearm classification, toxicology and a forensic science courier service.
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