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 development techniques…
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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 Enforcement…
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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 investigator…