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, ...

Ninety-one years after fingerprint evidence was first presented in an American courtroom, its reputation as an infallible forensic tool is under attack in a court challenge that could change how ...

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 ...

Today, federal prosecutors will try to persuade U.S. District Judge Louis H. Pollak to reverse his recent decision barring experts from testifying about whether a fingerprint taken from a crime scene ...

Expert fingerprinters held a party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with ...