Fingerprint Evidence Cases

Investigations in which a fingerprint recovered at the scene identified or convicted the offender, from the 1892 Necochea murder that produced the first conviction based on fingerprint evidence to later serial murder cases solved when a single print matched a suspect in an automated database. A case belongs here when its cited source states that fingerprint evidence was decisive. These cases mark the historical turn from anthropometric measurement to fingerprint identification and the later reliance on stored fingerprint records in criminal investigation.