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200 BCE
prehistoric- china
chinese records from the qin dynasty illustrate the details about using handprints as evidence during burglary investigations. examples such as clay seals bearing friction ridge impressions were used during both the qin and han dynasties. it reminds me of fossil prints of animals or the sealife founded in between rocks. (document # 3) -
fingerprint history
the start and evolution of fingerprint when physiologist marcello Malpighi examined fingerprints under a microscope and noted how humans have a unique series of ridges including loops within the hand (document #4) -
mayer's first mention of uniqueness
mayer authored the book anatomical copper-plates with appropriate explanations containing drawings of friction ridge skin patterns. he wrote, "...the arrangement of skin ridges is never duplicated in two persons...spite of their peculiarities of arrangement all have a certain likeness" (cummins and midlo, 1943, pages 12-13) (document 2) -
jan purkinje
a different physiologist discovered the first system of classification of fingerprints and she describe that there were at least nine different fingerprint patterns (document #4) -
update 1: evolution of fingerprint identification
it was said that the chinese adapted the ways of babylonians because they would press their fingers into wet clay to record business transactions. the practice of traditional chinese re was still in use since the chief magistrate of the hooghly district in jungipoor, india, required residents to record their fingerprints when signing business documents and the comparison between both of them reflected towards the future when the growth of technology starts to widen (document #1) -
francis galton
he was the one who designed a form for recording inked fingerprint impressions and defined three main pattern types. furthermore, collected 8000 fingerprints and developed their classification based on the spirals, loops, and arches. as well (document #6) -
update 2: evolution of fingerprint technology
fingerprint innovation successfully identified amongst male twins despite resembled alike in any genetic attribute. adding on the new york city authorities built a small fingerprint institution to register fingerprints of individuals detained.(document #2) -
the first criminal trial that used fingerprints as evidence
the trial of thomas jennings – an african-american man who had been paroled six weeks earlier, who was accused of shooting, robberies, and killing someone. he was found wearing a torn/ bloodied coat & carrying a revolver. what was found at the crime was a fingerprint from a freshly painted railing that he didn't notice when he went through a window at the hiller house. this led to towards the method of solving cases endures more than a century later (document #5) -
solved case of fingerprints on lego blocks & 23-yr old utah case open
toys left by a killer's 5-year-old son and dna evidence have helped solve a 23-year-old murder mystery in suburban utah when lucille johnson, a 78-year-old grandmother, was strangled and beaten to death inside her home. her murder didn't get enough recognition & become a cold case without justice until investigators with salt lake city's unified police department recently reopened the cold case (hastings) -
chilling solved case of jason david cook
he was on probation for felony theft charges when he held up the walgreens and 7 years later it was solved by gathering evidence which started to tie together when the police connected cook, when a scientist at the michigan state police grayling crime lab matched the latent crime (express)