Conroe police officer Jimmy Chilcutt is a drug smuggler's worst nightmare. He has developed techniques to lift fingerprints off drug parcels that law officers once considered impossible. "We can even ...

New research into the most effective way of lifting fingerprints from polymer banknotes has been released by English scientists. New research into the most effective way of lifting fingerprints from ...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - "Fingerprints and DNA," said Jonathan Hanning, "this is something very common ... that you are seeing in the courts here at the Justice Center in Parwan." The Justice ...

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 ...

It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud. British scientists have developed a new crime-fighting technique that allows police to lift fingerprints from bullets even if a criminal ...

Griffiths left her fingerprints on discs, plastic bottles, bottle caps, a paper coffee cup and its lid. She showed us two methods of lifting prints, one using black powder and another using magnetic ...

SAN DIEGO, March 13 — Dusting for fingerprints can sometimes alter the prints, erasing valuable forensic clues. Now, chemists say they have developed a new fingerprint visualization technique using ...