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Practice Of Fingerprinting

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A forensic test that was featured in the episode was the practice of fingerprinting and dusting for fingerprints at a crime scene. Fingerprinting has been used throughout human history as a means of solving crimes. One of the earliest examples of the use of fingerprinting in forensic science was during the Chinese Qin Dynasty, which recognized the importance of handprints as a form of evidence in investigating burglaries. The practice of fingerprinting in forensic science and crime scene investigation made significant progress in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Thomas Taylor of the United States Department of Agriculture suggested in 1877 that bloody fingerprints could be used as evidence in crime scene investigations to determine

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