The Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory has suspended some firearms forensics after discovering an issue with gun evidence in an ongoing murder case.
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Police have used fingerprints left at the scene of a 1986 murder of a Florida paramedic and bodybuilder to finally identify the killer, a major twist on who they originally thought was the murderer.
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Analytical scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that drug residue can be detected on gel-lifted fingerprints.
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Scientists have developed a water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that makes fingerprints visible in just a few seconds.
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Using post-mortem fingerprints, investigators identified Seven as 75-year-old Reba C. Bailey, an Illinois veteran missing since the 1970s.
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Researchers have created a way to map and visualize fingermarks in three dimensions from any perspective on a computer—using digital holography.
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A team of engineers from Columbia University and the University at Buffalo, SUNY say they have built and trained an AI that has proven not every fingerprint is unique.
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According to the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department, the man had been deceased for one to two weeks prior to the discovery of his remains.
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Recently 3M, the only company that produces the main carrier solvent used for the detection of fingerprints on porous surfaces, has announced that it will stop manufacturing and phase out the solvent, known as HFE7100, by the end of 2025.
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One day after police tried to interview school bus driver Jeremiah Guyette about a murder that took place in 1994 in the town he briefly lived in, Guyette fatally shot himself.
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