Fingerprint analysis by artificial intelligence could solve cold cases and overturn wrongful convictions. A new development that can identify whether prints from different fingers came from the same ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was a crime Adam Braseel says he paid for but says he never committed. “I guess the best way to describe it would be like I’ve been through everything a murderer goes ...

Apr. 20—Two forensic experts connected more evidence to Demetri and Clyde Ewing, however, the defense provided heavy scrutiny of one expert. Tara Martinez, of the Idaho State Police Forensic Science ...

Criminals typically leave behind fingerprints at the crime scene. Forensics helps investigators analyse these fingerprints. However, fingerprints left at a crime scene are often partial, distorted and ...

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

For years fingerprinting has been viewed by the public as a practically infallible crime-fighting tool with accuracy rates approaching 100 percent. But revelations like those in the Houston Police ...

A shortage of fingerprint experts at the Los Angeles Police Department has caused a large backlog of unanalyzed fingerprints, resulting in long delays to thousands of active criminal investigations.