Fingerprints Hide Lifestyle Clues
Mark Ward writes for The BBC:
Fingerprints could soon help police narrow down their list of suspects by giving clues about the lifestyle of whoever left the prints at the scene of a crime.More here.
Researchers in the UK are uncovering the ways fingerprints are changed by age, smoking, drug use and even some personal grooming products.
The work also promises to help obtain good quality copies of prints that have gone unnoticed for days or weeks.
Related work aims to find prints on guns and bomb fragments that are often among the most difficult to recover.
posted by Fergie @ 4/02/2006 12:17:00 PM
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