The Windowsill
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The History of Fingerprint Evidence
In 1910, police in Chicago recovered four fingerprints from a window ledge. The prints were left by the person who sexually assaulted and killed Clarence Hiller. Today it's rare to recover prints off the sides of spent cartridge cases. However, today we can at times do this with black powder or superglue.
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