Timmy McGrath
Bronxville School
Forensics
December 5th, 2017
“Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University.” Forensic Magazine, 5 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/fingerprints-lead-arrest-oregon-fugitive-texas-university.
This article was about the technique of fingerprints leading to the arrest of a fugitive from oregon. Daniel Charles Ray Hanson, 42, has been known to have used aliases in the past. And this time he used one to enroll in a Texas University. He had used many fake identities in the past to enroll into other schools. One time he even used one to enroll back into highschool after he had graduated and was in his late 20’s. When he was enrolled at the University of Texas, Austin he was granted some scholarship money, he took this money without hesitation and continued to go to school but had an angry outburst that caused many people to write complaints to the university about him. The University then revoked his money and ran a background check in which they checked his fingerprints from the local database. They didn’t get an exact match at first so they brought in a very high trained fingerprint examiner and he was able to give them a direct match. That match lead back to Daniel Charles Ray Hanson who had an outstanding warrant in Oregon for many counts of forgery on legal documents and using a false identity.
This article while being very well written, I felt could have gone into more detail about what happened to the fingerprints the first time. I feel like adding why they couldn’t get an exact match would have helped make the article much more interesting. The article was very well written but it was a little on the short side adding some more detail about the complaint that was made about him. But it was overall a great article and a good read.
This really relates to the real world because people are arguing now a lot that fingerprinting isn't a good way to prove someone is guilty but by reading this article it restores some faith that that is in fact not true and fingerprinting can be trusted.
4 comments:
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Forensics
Lily Monahan
December 6th, 2017
“Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University.” Forensic Magazine, 5 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/fingerprints-lead-arrest-oregon-fugitive-texas-university.
I think Timmy did a good job summarizing the article and explained the case at hand in detail. His thoughts on how this article related to the larger scientific community made very good points. The review also made me think about fingerprinting since I know it is a heavily debated topic in the world of science.
Timmy went right into describing who Daniel Charles Ray Hanson waas before really explaining what the article was about and more about the fingerprinting that got the perp caught in the first sentence. I think the report would have been easier to read if we had background information on why we were reading about this person before hearing a detailed personal history about him. Some of the grammar in this article was also confusing, which made it take longer to read.
Overall, this article provided an interesting perspective on fingerprinting, which is debated in the Scientific community. The review made me realize while scans may not be completely reliable, the work of an expert fingerprint is very reliable in fingerprint analysis.
Mairead Cain
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
14 December 2017
“Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University.” Forensic Magazine, 5 Dec. 2017.
www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/fingerprints-lead-arrest-oregon-fugitive-texas-university.
Timmy did a very nice job with his current event review on the article “Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University.” from the Forensic Magazine. I decided to review his report as the title was rather intriguing and posed many questions. There are many good techniques he uses throughout the report. One example is how he explains the detailed background of the specific case. His focus on this factor of the original report is important as it gives readers an insight on the specific details of the case. Another aspect of Timmy’s writing that was done rather well was when he explained how, exactly, Daniel Charles Ray Hanson was identified using fingerprint identification. He explained how Daniel Charles Ray Hanson was wanted in Oregon for forgery of legal documents. Lastly, I appreciated how Timmy was specific when discussing the negative aspects of the original article. This showed readers his deep understanding of the source material.
Overall, Timmy’s report was extremely interesting and informative, however there are some details that he could tweak and add to make the current event report even that much better. I recommend that he explains when, exactly, this incident took place and why Daniel Charles Ray Hanson decided to enroll at Texas University. It would have been beneficial for him to go into further detail to give readers a better understanding of the subject at hand. Also, he could have supplemented his current event report with some quotes from the article to add substance.
Timmy’s report was very informative and I learned extensively about this specific case at Texas University. Before reading the report, I had little knowledge about how Daniel Charles Ray Hansen was caught for forgery of legal documents with fingerprint identification techniques. After reading Timmy’s report, I see how important it is for fingerprinting identification tools to be utilized in order to catch criminals.
I thought that Timmy did a good job keeping his review from getting too long, and he managed to get the point across very succinctly. I also thought his critique of the article brought up some good points, and his explanation of how it relates to the real world summed up exactly what I thought about the subject.
I think Timmy could have used some quotes from the article to make it seem more professional, but otherwise I thought it was a good review.
What surprised me most was that a 42 year old man managed to pass for a college student, and that he had passed for a highschool student when he was almost 30.
Isabella Dibbini
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
22 December 2017
“Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University.” Forensic Magazine, 5 Dec. 2017, www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/12/fingerprints-lead-arrest-oregon-fugitive-texas-university.
Timmy wrote an excellent review on the article: “Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University” by Associated Press. To start with, he developed an accurate summary of his article, including all of the main arguments. In addition, his review is very detailed, making it very interesting. Lastly, he does a great job of explaining how Daniel Charles Ray Hanson was identified through the use of fingerprint identification.
Overall, this review is extremely well written, however, there are a few small things that would make it even better. For instance, Timmy could have incorporated textual evidence, from the article, to support his claims. Also, if he wanted to make his article even more interesting, he could include outside research to support his ideas.
After reading Timmy’s review of the article “Fingerprints Lead to Arrest of Oregon Fugitive at Texas University” by Associated Press., I learned a lot of new information that I was previously unaware of. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this review and believe that Timmy did a great job.
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