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Fingerprints first used to determine identity. Arabic merchants take a debtors fingerprint and attach it to the bill.
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Two brothers went into their neighbors house and killed two people. One of them died on the spot and the other one lived on for another 4 days but was unconscious. Fingerprints matched the evidence of the two brothers and they were hung in May of 1905.
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Clarence Hiller was killed in his home in Chicago. When police arrived to the scene they found a fingerprint that the killer left on a fresh painted railing. The police used this fingerprint and were able to identify the killer.
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79 year old Grace Hayden was raped and killed in 1987. It took the investigators awhile to find out who did it. When they took evidence and the fingerprints it matched up to 62 year old Kevin Ford. This case was carried out until 2015.
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A man was drinking a beer at a bar one night. He thought it was just a normal night. Little did he know he would be sent to jail for his fingerprints on that beer. His fingerprints linked him to a homicide that happened over 3 decades ago.
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The person was hit with a car and and stabbed multiple times. Fingerprints didn't come back until the year 2006 which concluded that it was Linden's boyfriend, Nicholas.
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Todd Barket murdered Sondra Better. This was the first case Florida solved by using forensics. They were able to identify it was him with fingerprints.
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Frank Gallas Mendoza was arrested for killing Richard Cacero Lucero. The crime took place in December of 2001 and was just solved in the yea 2018. Once again they did a DNA test and Mendoza was found guilty.
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Jared Davis Cook asked Walgreens for painkillers and said he had the store bomb triggered if he didn't get the painkillers. The woman at Walgreens got the license plate of his car and found out the car was stolen. They got the pants fingerprints from the car and were able to lock the man up in 2019.
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This event happened originally in 1999 but it took them 10 years to figure out what happened. Fingerprints were able to identify the person who did commit the crime.