| Author | Message | ||
     Webservant (Member) Moderator Username: Member Post Number: 361 Registered: 03-1997 |
Yes, it is not probable, but it is possible to detect an identifiable latent finger or palm print on a single matchstick. For many years, the FBI displayed a court chart in an FBI Academy (Quantico, VA) training room wherein an FBI Examiner had charted a latent fingerprint identification on a single paper match (I saw the chart back in the years when the FBI taught the now-discontinued Administrative Advanced Latent Fingerprint Course). It is not often that an identifiable latent finger or palm print is developed on a surface as small as a single paper or wooden match, but it can and does happen. It is a matter of chance whether or not sufficient legible identifying fingerprint ridge detail is deposited on such a small surface. | ||
| Joanne Newhouse (Jn4sldnny) Member Username: Jn4sldnny Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2009 |
I found a bunch of burned matchsticks behind my TV and I found out that my ex husband was convicted of arson in past. He has much to gain from my death and the house being burned. Yet I do not want to accuse him, if it could be wrong. |
