When you use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone, your phone is looking at a two-dimensional pattern to determine whether it’s the correct fingerprint before it unlocks for you. But the imprint ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was a crime Adam Braseel says he paid for but says he never committed. “I guess the best way to describe it would be like I’ve been through everything a murderer goes ...

A newly annotated fingerprint dataset combined with open-source software could help forensic examiners work more consistently ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL)- A Greene County judge heard arguments in a post-conviction hearing in the 25-year-old Lillelid murder case. Attorneys for Crystal Sturgill, Edward Mullins, and Karen Howell ...

The Tennessee Court of Appeals denied a new petition for the man who has been on death row since April 1996.

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

With hand lenses and magnifying domes, a classroom full of coroners poured over pages of fingerprints Wednesday, Dec. 11. The coroners from all over Colorado squinted at the fingerprints’ friction ...

A shortage of fingerprint experts at the Los Angeles Police Department has caused a large backlog of unanalyzed fingerprints, resulting in long delays to thousands of active criminal investigations.

A Russian firm with close ties to the Kremlin created the code used by the FBI’s fingerprint-analysis software, raising concerns that foreign hackers may be able to obtain sensitive biometric ...

Using fingerprints as a form of identification has been used since the reign of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon. Nearly 4,000 years later, fingerprints are still a vital form of identity authentication, ...