Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Fingerprints Provide Clues To More Than Just Identity
New technology has been able to help pull overlapping layers of fingerprints into individual fingerprints. With layers of trace evidence it is hard to see which print is the right for the person who committed the crime. R. Graham Cook led a team that is pulling each layer of finger prints from scenes that were overlapping. Finger prints can leave behind molecule compounds. Which by pulling the compounds Cook says it could be used to identify an individual. With this new technology in progress it might be easier finding the real criminal instead of putting someone who is innocent in jail.
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Michelle wrote a good post with key points, explaining a new method about fingerprints acting s trace evidence. The link should be added where she got this article from and also identify R. Graham Cook. I liked how this process can identify a criminal easily. Overall, good article.
Good try Michelle. I think it was great how you introduced your topic and discussed the issues surrounding fingerprints and how they help criminalists identify people. However, I think the article is rather short and incomplete (i.e. you need to add the link to the article and also adress who Graham Cook is.) But nice job overall.
I very much enjoyed reading about Michelle's post. I thought that she did an excellent job of mixing the scientific aspect of the article while making it understandable. I liked that she chose an article that no one had written about before, so it was new and interesting. It would have been nice to know when this discovery first came out and how frequently it will be used in the field. I learned alot about how multiple fingerprints can be extracted and enjoyed Michelle's summary.
I think michelle did a really good job explaining what her topic was about. Even though it wasnt a long paragraph she got the point across and described how the fingerprinting is done and explained it in an easy to understand format. The only thing i would have changed was to have a little bit more detail about the fingerprinting such as when it was discovered and when this technique started being used. But overall Michelle did a great job.
Michelles post was very helpful and informative. She explained key points about fingerprinting. She should link where she got the article. Overall i liked her article.
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