Calling fingerprint identification unreliable, a federal judge has banned experts from testifying about whether a fingerprint taken from a crime scene matches that of a defendant. While fingerprints ...

BUDAPEST, June 6 (Reuters) - South Korea's practice of fingerprinting all adult citizens has helped forensic experts identify all of the bodies recovered so far from a boat crash in Budapest that ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Fingerprint experts at the city Office of Chief Medical Examiner often help police solve cases while bringing closure to families in New York City. "No matter what, I have to ...

(PHILADELPHIA) - The FBI's tests for fingerprint examiners are ``a joke'' because the examples are far easier to read than typical crime scene prints, an expert testified. ``If I gave my experts these ...

WASHINGTON — At the end of this month, a woman with 38 years of experience identifying Montgomery County criminals’ fingerprints will retire. Mary Ann Horton is reflecting on her career that has ...

An expert from the Alaska State Crime Lab testified about fingerprints found in the apartment of one of the victims in a 2015 double murder in Douglas. Kurt Wilcoxson, a supervisor at the crime lab, ...

Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister, Thea, slipped out of their family home in rural Maine to party with friends and never came home. Shaw (short for Shawnee), now a ...

MIAMI — A former FBI fingerprint specialist testified Thursday that terrorism suspect Jose Padilla’s fingerprints match at least seven of 45 latent prints found on an alleged application for Al Qaeda ...

Courtroom dramas play up the idea of criminal trials as a hard-fought contest between the prosecution and the defense. The prosecutor, representing the state, tries at all costs to secure a conviction ...

SEATTLE — FBI fingerprint experts identified Portland, Ore., lawyer Brandon Mayfield as a suspect in the Madrid train bombings six days after the attacks, and investigated him even though Spanish ...