UK - First mass fingerprinting snared killer of 3yo June Devaney, 1948

wfgodot · Oct 22, 2015

4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire....and 40,000 sets of prints:

In 1948, the First Mass Fingerprinting Operation Snagged a Horrific Child Killer

---
The date was May 14, 1948, so forensic science was still an emerging field. But police in Blackburn, England, did have a very powerful weapon in their arsenal: fingerprinting. The attacker had left a series of footprints on the Queens Park Hospital floor, but more importantly, hed also grasped a large bottle during his intrusion, leaving behind his own unique identifiers on the glass.
---

The story above, at truecrime.io9.com

wfgodot · Oct 22, 2015

...and Colin Pitchfork, the first criminal convicted of murder via DNA evidence.

UK - First mass fingerprinting snared killer of 3yo June Devaney, 1948

New Posts

wfgodot

Former Member

wfgodot

Former Member

DNASolves

Staff online

Members online

Online statistics

Forum statistics