Fingerprint analysis by artificial intelligence could solve cold cases and overturn wrongful convictions. A new development that can identify whether prints from different fingers came from the same ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was a crime Adam Braseel says he paid for but says he never committed. “I guess the best way to describe it would be like I’ve been through everything a murderer goes ...

Criminals typically leave behind fingerprints at the crime scene. Forensics helps investigators analyse these fingerprints. However, fingerprints left at a crime scene are often partial, distorted and ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

SEATTLE — A federal program that uses fingerprint analysis to identify illegal immigrants in county jails has been activated in Washington state and Montana ahead of the 2013 nationwide rollout, U.S.

For years fingerprinting has been viewed by the public as a practically infallible crime-fighting tool with accuracy rates approaching 100 percent. But revelations like those in the Houston Police ...

A new American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) working group report on the quality of latent fingerprint analysis says that courtroom testimony and reports stating or even implying ...

With hand lenses and magnifying domes, a classroom full of coroners poured over pages of fingerprints Wednesday, Dec. 11. The coroners from all over Colorado squinted at the fingerprints’ friction ...

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