Forensic science has long held that fingerprints are singular identifiers, unique to each finger and each individual. This ...

A sheriff’s technician testified Thursday in Michael Jackson’s molestation trial that she found a fingerprint from the brother of Jackson’s accuser in an adult magazine seized from the singer’s home.

Fingerprint analysis by artificial intelligence could solve cold cases and overturn wrongful convictions. A new development that can identify whether prints from different fingers came from the same ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was a crime Adam Braseel says he paid for but says he never committed. “I guess the best way to describe it would be like I’ve been through everything a murderer goes ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

For years fingerprinting has been viewed by the public as a practically infallible crime-fighting tool with accuracy rates approaching 100 percent. But revelations like those in the Houston Police ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL)- A Greene County judge heard arguments in a post-conviction hearing in the 25-year-old Lillelid murder case. Attorneys for Crystal Sturgill, Edward Mullins, and Karen Howell ...

In a case that had challenged the infallibility of fingerprints as a crime-solving tool, a federal judge reversed himself Wednesday and said experts could testify that prints lifted from the scene ...

SEATTLE — A federal program that uses fingerprint analysis to identify illegal immigrants in county jails has been activated in Washington state and Montana ahead of the 2013 nationwide rollout, U.S.