Crime History: St. Louis police first to use fingerprints – Washington Examiner

October 26, 2011 Posted By: Leave a comment
For 30 years prior, law enforcement officials measured bony parts of the body to identify criminals. But that system pretty much ended in 1903, when a man named Will West was sentenced to the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. It turned out there was ...
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