
The Windowsill
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The First Time Anyone Has Ever Used a Fingerprint in a Criminal Trial
The prosecution puts him on trial for first degree murder. He is very quiet, wants to see how things lay out. The most important part of this would be the fingerprints. Four different fingerprint experts took the stand and said unequivocally, this man did it. It's a fact. No one else could have put these prints down. They're matched. And that's it.
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