Process, or techniques, or approaches, or means of establishing the identity of a particular person.
Personal Identification
What is Fingerprint in China?
Hua Chi
The ones noted to be the user of Fingerprint?
Chinese
He took the prints of his own palms and after 41 years he printed the same palms to prove that prints do not change except for some scratches due to old age.
Herman Welcker
First Criminal conviction in 1911 based solely upon fingerprint evidence in Illinois, USA.
People vs. Jennings
The famous chop-chop lady in 1967 whose dismembered body was identified through fingerprint.
Lucila Lalu Case
It was created by the act of Congress. It was established with the US DOJ.
The First National Bureau of Identification
First conviction based on fingerprint leading judicial decision in the Philippine Jurisprudence.
People of the Philippines vs. Medina
He top the examination in fingerprinting given by Capt. Dugan and Guerrero.
Agustin Patricio
First government-recognized school to teach the Science of Fingerprints and other Police Services.
Plaridel Education Institutiton or Philippine College of Criminology
A case in which the fingerprint expert successfully defended the fingerprint evidence based on eight identical ridge points.
Bilangawa vs. Amador
Father of Poroscopy. "When two objects come into contact there is an exchange of material form each other."
Dr. Edmond Locard
The First American Instructress in Dactyloscopy.
Mary K. Holland
The man behind the development of DNA Fingerprints.
Sir Alec Jeffreys
Grandfather of Dactyloscopy.
Marcello Malpighi
A book written by Marcello Malpighi entitled "De Externo Tactus Organo" or?
On the outermost Organs of touch
He states that fingerprints are never duplicated in two persons.
J.C.A Mayer
First to advocate the use of fingerprints as a substitute for signatures from among Indian natives to avoid impersonation. Also known as the father of Chiroscopy.
William James Herschel
He concluded that fingerprint patterns are unchangeable and that superficial injury of fingers did not alter them, they returned to their former design as the injury healed.
Dr. Henry Faulds
The Father of Modern FIngerprint / Father of Fingerprint.
Edward Richard Henry
He said that the possibility of two prints to be alike was 1: 65, 000, 000, 000.
Sir Francis Galton
He made the first criminal fingerprint Identification.
Dr. Juan Vucetich
A woman who murdered his two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to place the blame on another.
Rojas
The first Filipino Fingerprint technician who was employed in the Philippine Constabulary; made the first conviction in the Philippine Court through the use of fingerprint.
Generoso Reyes
He taught fingerprint in the Philippine Constabulary.
Mr. Jones
The first Filipina Fingerprint Technician.
Isabela Bernales
They established a modern and complete fingerprint files for Philippine commonwealth during the reoccupation of the Philippines by the American Forces.
LT. Asa and N. Darby
FBI Washington gave the first examination in fingerprinting in 1927.
Capt. Thomas Dugan and Flaviano Guerrero.
The chances of failure of DNA Fingerprinting?
1 in 2x10 22
Chances of failure of Dactylography (Fingerprinting)?
1 in 64 billion
Chances of failure of measurement of height?
1 in 4
Chances of failure of Comparison of Pubic Hair?
1 in 800
Chances of failure of Anthropometry?
1 in 268 million
Chances of Failure of Comparison of Scalp Hair
1 in 4500
Chances of failure of teeth bite marks?
1 in 2.5 billion
The identifying details or characteristics found at the crime scene compared to known records of the victim or suspect.
By Comparison
Methods of Identification by elimination.
By exclusion
Dental Identification by studying the dental structures.
Odontology
It requires practitioners of dentistry to keep records of their patients for identification purposes.