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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…
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 use of the terms “identification” or “individualization” in…
Ancient pigment re-purposed as a fingerprint powder
Interesting article from ABC News Australia: Egyptian blue delivers fingerprint boost to modern forensic science
How reliable are Latent Fingerprint Examiners?
Research by Miami-Dade PD, via the NIJ.
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…
Finding Fingerprints with Super Glue Video from Make Magazine
Great video on how to super glue for fingerprints from the folks at Make magazine.
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 latent fingerprints on paper is…
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 powder as…
Fingerprinting the Dead
by Daryl W. Clemens 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 the fingers which…