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    Fingerprints have been used for identification purposes for centuries. They are unique to each individual and do not change over a person's lifetime. Fingerprint analysis involves classifying prints based on ridge patterns, such as loops and whorls, and identifying fine details called minutiae. In a famous 1933 kidnapping case, fingerprints left on ransom notes helped identify the criminals, demonstrating the technique's value in criminal investigations. While very useful, fingerprints have also contributed to misidentifications, as in a 2004 terrorism case where an innocent man was initially implicated by a partial fingerprint match.

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    Fingerprints have been used for identification purposes for centuries. They are unique to each individual and do not change over a person's lifetime. Fingerprint analysis involves classifying prints based on ridge patterns, such as loops and whorls, and identifying fine details called minutiae. In a famous 1933 kidnapping case, fingerprints left on ransom notes helped identify the criminals, demonstrating the technique's value in criminal investigations. While very useful, fingerprints have also contributed to misidentifications, as in a 2004 terrorism case where an innocent man was initially implicated by a partial fingerprint match.

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    Fingerprints have been used for identification purposes for centuries. They are unique to each individual and do not change over a person's lifetime. Fingerprint analysis involves classifying prints based on ridge patterns, such as loops and whorls, and identifying fine details called minutiae. In a famous 1933 kidnapping case, fingerprints left on ransom notes helped identify the criminals, demonstrating the technique's value in criminal investigations. While very useful, fingerprints have also contributed to misidentifications, as in a 2004 terrorism case where an innocent man was initially implicated by a partial fingerprint match.

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    Fingerprints: "Fingerprints Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Make Fingerprints" - Unknown

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    FINGERPRINTS

    Danniela Trejos
    “Fingerprints cannot lie, but liars can make
    Alessandra Morejon
    Fingerprints” Emmeline Echeverria
    -unknown Yanely rodriguez
    The History of Fingerprints
     During China’s T’ang dynasty (eighth
    century AD), clerks used inked
    fingerprints on business contracts.
    Dactyloscopy:
     The Study of fingerprints. The word is
    derived from the Greek daktulos,
    meaning finger.
    The Anatomy of Fingerprints
     Fingerprints have sweat pores, which is 98 to 99
    percent water. It is estimated that a fingerprint initially
    may weigh 0.1 milligram, so after evaporation of the
    water, we have left about 1 microgram of residue,
    made up of half salt and half complex organic
    compounds such as amino acid, lipids, vitamins and
    perhaps additional body oils picked up on the finger by
    touching oily or hairy parts of the body.
    Fundamental Principles of Fingerprints.

    Fingerprints is an Fingerprints remains unchanged


    individual characteristics. during an individual’s life time.

    Fingerprints have general characteristics


    ridges patterns that permits them to be
    systematically classified
    Did you know?
    That identical twins have the same
    DNA but different type of
    fingerprints.

    That fingerprints “cannot” be removed.


    (they can be remove but they would come back
    after a period of time)
    Classification of Fingerprints
    Plain Arch
    Fingerprint pattern in which the ridges
    enter on one side of the impression and
    flow or tend to flow out the other side with a
    rise or wave in the center.
    Tented Arch

    A fingerprint pattern which possesses


    either an angle, an up thrust, or two of the
    three basic characteristics of a loop.
    Ulnar Loop

    A loop fingerprint pattern which flows in the


    direction of the ulna bone, toward the little
    finger.
    Radial Loop

    A loop fingerprint pattern which flows in the


    direction of the radius bone
    Plain Whorl

    A whorl fingerprint pattern that


    has two deltas and at least one
    ridge making a complete circuit,
    which may be spiral, oval,
    circular, or any variant of a
    circle
    Central pocket Loop

    A whorl type of fingerprint pattern having


    two deltas and at least one ridge that make
    a complete circuit.
    Double Loop whorl

    A double loop whorl consists of two


    separate and distinct loop formations with
    two separate and distinct shoulders and
    two deltas.
    Accidental Whorl
    A type of whorl fingerprint pattern which is
    a combination of two different types of
    pattern, with the exception of the plain
    arch, with two or more deltas; or a pattern
    which possesses some of the requirements
    for two or more different types.
    Henry Classification System
    Edward Henry developed a method of
    Classifying fingerprints, later modified
    By the FBI, that allowed all sets of ten
    fingerprints in the world to be divided
    into 1,024 groups.
    Ridge Classification
    After classifying fingerprints according to general
    patterns or groups, but
    To individualize them you must use the fine structure
    of ridge characteristic
    Or minutiae.
    Percentages of fingerprints
     60% Loops 35% Whorls 5% Arch
    Latent Prints
    Latent print is by carefully dusting it with a fine
    powder. This method is most
    Effective on hard, nonabsorbent surfaces.

    The color of the powder is chosen to


    stand out against the surface being
    examined.
    The 1933 Hamm Kidnapping
    On a warm summer evening in 1933,
    William A. Hamm, Jr., President of the
    Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, was
    working at his office in St. Paul, Minnesota.
    He had just exited the building when he
    was grabbed by four shadowed figures and
    pushed into the back of a car.
    He was kidnap and forced to sign four ransom notes

    The investigation of the Hamm kidnapping was the


    First time silver nitrate method was used successfully
    To visualize latent prints from forensic evidence.

    By painting the evidence, in this case the ransom notes,


    with a silver nitrate solution, the salty perspiration reacted
    chemically to form silver chloride -- which is white and
    visible to the naked eye. There they were: hard evidence
    that the Karpis gang was behind the kidnapping.
    Madrid Bombings
    On March 11, 2004, coordinated train
    bombings in Madrid, Spain killed 191 people
    And wounded 2,050.
    after extensive and intrusive investigation,
    on May 6 2004, the FBI arrested Brandon
    Mayfield, an Oregon lawyer .
    A bag found by Spanish police containing
    detonating device had fingerprints that were
    Identified by the FBI as belonging to
    Mayfield.
    It turned out that Mayfield’s prints were
    not at exact
    Match to the ones on the bag.
    Quiz
     1-What’s the name of the study of fingerprints?
     2-Who created a method to identify fingerprints
    easier?
     3-On latent prints does the color of the powder is
    chosen carefully to contrast the surface? True
    or false?
     4-Do identical twins have same DNA or same
    fingerprints?
     5-How many milligrams does a fingerprint
    weights?
    THE END…

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