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Crime Scene Officer and Fingerprint Expert with over 13 years experience in Crime Scene Investigation and Latent Print Analysis. The opinions or assertions contained on this site are the private views of the author and are not to be construed as those of any professional organisation or policing body.

Man freed after 20 years for a murder he didn’t commit based on a wrong fingerprint identification

Beniah Dandridge was released on October 1st after the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) presented evidence showing that he is innocent of the murder for which he...

Australian scientists discover faster, safer method for analysing forensic fingerprints

A home burglary has led to a scientific breakthrough that has the potential to overhaul more than a century of established forensic practice, changing...

Can digital photos catch criminals in eye reflections

Because the most commonly photographed objects are faces, researchers say it could be possible to mine detailed facial images for hidden information. Human beings are...

Forensic Software to sort out ‘murky’ DNA mixes

On TV dramas like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the tiniest shreds of DNA are like magic keys, unlocking the identities of criminals with the...

People emit a ‘germ cloud’ of bacteria as unique as a fingerprint, study finds

Each of us give off millions of bacteria from our human microbiome into the air around us every day, and that cloud of bacteria...

Who Should Have Access to DNA Evidence?

Next week, the West Virginia Supreme Court will hear a case in which 30 former prosecutors from around the country have taken the unusual...

Can You Determine Race From a Fingerprint?

Each individual’s fingerprints are unique—the tiny loops, ridges and whorls on the epidermis are even more distinctive than a person’s DNA and are one of the...

5.6 million fingerprints stolen in U.S. personnel data hack, five times as many as previously thought

One of the scariest parts of the massive cybersecurity breaches at the Office of Personnel Management just got worse: The agency now says 5.6...

Blood and teeth samples predict a criminal’s age

Forensic biomedical scientists from KU Leuven have developed a test to predict individuals’ age on the basis of blood or teeth samples. This test...

Hands Off! NIST Helps Bring Contactless Fingerprint Technology to Market

Quickly moving through security checkpoints by showing your hand to a scanner seems straight out of science fiction, but the National Institute of Standards...

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