- FINGERPRINT SECTION -
Our feature fingerprint article:
Fragile
(Sensitive) Fingerprint Recovery from Mylar Surface
Michael Byrd
Crime Scene Investigator
Metro-Dade (Florida) Police Department
Mike
Byrd, a Miami Dade County police officer and Crime Scene Investigator passed away
peacefully on Friday, February 25th 2005, at 2043 hours after a more than two year battle
with multiple myeloma cancer. Mike was 49 years old. He was the real-life Crime
Scene Investigations Officer portrayed today on television shows and the visionary pioneer
of forensics techniques that solved crimes.
View Mike
Byrd's obituary here.
The Iowa
Division of the International Association for Identification extends sincere sympathy to
the Byrd family. Mike contributed many articles to the Iowa I.A.I. website as
we were just getting started years ago. The Iowa I.A.I. is very proud to continue
offering this article which was authored by Mike.
Read more
articles in our fingerprint section including ...
The Madrid Bombing Case
Robert
B. Stacey; Unit Chief
Quality
Assurance and Training Unit
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Virginia
In
the aftermath of the March 11, 2004, train bombing in Madrid, Spain, personnel
from the FBI Latent Print Unit performed a fingerprint analysis and reported
an individualization of a latent print with a candidate print from an
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification (IAFIS) search. It was
subsequently determined that the individualization was in error, and the
latent print was ultimately identified with a different subject.
This report provides information regarding the corrective actions the
FBI Laboratory implemented upon recognizing the error.
Age Determination - A Case Report
Black Powder Processing
Can Two Identical Ridge Patterns Actually Occur?
Daubert and Fingerprints: The United States vs. Brian C. Mitchell
Developing Prints on Adhesive Surfaces
Effective and Cost Efficient Catalyst - (superglue)
Enhancement of the Fingerprint
Getting the Most of your Fingerprint
Powders
Hidden Evidence: Latent Prints off Human Skin
Iodine and Silver Nitrate Processes
Is Friction Ridge Skin Identification a Science?
Latent Fingerprints from Latex Gloves
Latent Print Powders (How, when, and with what?)
Latent Print Fabrication
Nature Never Repeats Itself
Ninhydrin: Basic to Advanced
Separating Fact from Fiction
Superglue - Atmospheric Method
The Last and The First - an important history lesson
The Need for Numbers
The Use of Rollin' Glue
Fragile (Sensitive) Fingerprint Recovery from Mylar
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