Solving crimes with forensic anthropology – with Sue Black
Ri Science Podcast
Finger Prints Are Unique
We were quite happy with forensic finger printing until the shirley mc key case came out in scotland. And then they started to research finger prints, and they found that the problem isn't about the variation in finger prints. The problem is about the way in which we record differences in the finger prints. Weh'd gone from a position of accepting a set number of similarities as being the idividual. Oh, now you've got a problem, because if you now need more points to be a match than you used to do in the past, aren't you? You can put people in prison for a smaller number of points of match,.You can have to do a re trial
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