The Early Show-The Fingerprint, Helping Track Criminals Since 1902.
Convicting a person based on their fingerprint is rather difficult in our time. The trials of today require DNA evidence, plus the fingerprint of the alleged perp to get a conviction. However it was a different story in 1902. On this day in history the first conviction based on fingerprint identification occurred. A London Metropolitan Court convicted a criminal because of a fingerprint he left on a window rail. This was all the evidence the cops needed to identify […]