New Fingerprinting Technique Featured on AMW
Last night, on America’s Most Wanted, a finger printing technique was featured that showed how prints can be lifted from metal, even after the surface has been wiped clean.
The technique involves enhancing fingerprints than have corroded metal surfaces. Uses of this method include enhancing – after firing– a fingerprint that has been deposited on a [...]
Is Forensic Science as Fool Proof as We Think?
Popular Mechanics recently did a story on the shaky science of forensics. Crimes shows portray forensics as the end all be all to solving crimes, but are there methods really fool proof?
Here is Popular Mechanic’s review of four common evidence-gathering techniques, and the debates behind their accuracy.
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Fingerprints – Collection and Avoidance
Fingerprints. Everyone has them and in billions of comparisons, both by humans and computers, no two prints have ever been identical. For this reason, fingerprinting has helped investigators positively identify perpetrators of crimes for over a century.
From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab
