Suspect Identities“No two fingerprints are alike,” or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. |
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... Yard reduced its staff significantly . Fin- gerprint officers made a total of 1,722 identifications in 1902 , the ... Scotland Yard the Henry system would soon spread across the world.45 The Henry system was not the only criminological ...
... Scotland Yard detectives matched a bloody fingerprint found on a cash box at the scene to that of Alfred Stratton . The Yard dispatched Inspector Collins to make the identification and to testify for the Crown at the Old Bailey ...
... Scotland Yard admitted that its examiners had erroneously matched a latent print from the scene of a burglary at the London home of the writer Miriam Stoppard ( ex - wife of the playwright Tom Stop- pard ) with that of a suspect ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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