Fingerprints are a valuable identification tool for everything from crime detection to international travel. But what happens when the tips of our fingers are missing those distinctive patterns of ridges? It’s not the premise for a science fiction movie, but a real-life condition known as adermatoglyphia. It’s also known as “Immigration Delay Disease,” because affected […]
1978 muder case solved with fingerprint scan
33 years ago, 80-year-old widow Arlene Roberts was found murdered in her Renton, WA trailer. “Roberts’ hands and feet were tied with nylon stockings and there was a gag in her mouth,” Sgt. John Urquhart said. “She was naked from the waist down and a ligature was around her neck, fashioned, from a hair net. […]
