As most crime scene experts know, dusting for fingerprints can sometimes destroy parts of the prints, erasing potentially valuable forensic clues. Conventional fingerprinting methods involve treating ...

FBI technicians used the Henry Fingerprint Classification System and visual examinations to make identification determinations. Fingerprint technology evolved to such a degree that by the mid-1980s, ...

A failure of the FBI's computerized system to match fingerprints allowed a wanted sex offender to walk free in Georgia. Authorities say after he was released, Jeremy Brian Jones went on to kill four ...

Millions of television viewers watch each week as detectives pull latent fingerprints from crime scenes and catch bad guys with the help of a massive fingerprint database. Avid viewers even know it by ...

A system for three-dimensional (3-D) fingerprint identification has been developed by adopting ground breaking 3-D fingerprint minutiae recovery and matching technology, pushing contactless biometric ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you leave an identifiable fingerprint at a crime scene along Colorado’s Front Range, it probably won’t be long before 32 different police agencies know ...

The Internal Revenue Service has ordered 52 Cross Match digital fingerprinting systems from Cross Match Technologies, to use in conducting fingerprint-based background checks on employees and ...

Fingerprints are among the most distinctive features of human biology, serving as enduring identifiers for individuals and as windows into genetic and developmental processes. The three major ...