fingerprint

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Fingerprint and DNA tests failed to find any matches.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

A crime-scene tech, Stacy Cannady, located the original cards and ran the fingerprints through the nationwide Automated Fingerprint Identification System, a database that was implemented in 1999, more than 15 years after Reyos was convicted.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2022

The chair of the Fingerprint Society wrote that any fingerprint examiner who could be swayed by images or stories “is so immature he/she should seek employment at Disneyland.”

From Science Magazine • May 12, 2022

In connection with the Latent Fingerprint Section there is maintained a general appearance file of many confidence game operators.

From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)