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...bombing, insisting that much more should have been there if McVeigh was the culprit. "The government didn't give you any PETN from McVeigh's car," Tritico said. "Why? Because there wasn't any. Where is the PETN on the door handle? Where is the PETN on the fingerprint card at the Noble County Courthouse?" "It seemed Tritico was getting through to the jury, and he was certainly getting through to even the biggest skeptics of the defense's case," notes Cole. "When Judge Richard Matsch adjourned for the day, it was still clear that while the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing the Seeds of Doubt | 5/30/1997 | See Source »

Proteins are the basic machinery of cells--they are responsible for every process that occurs in the body. X-ray crystallography is a technique used for mapping a protein's structure atom-by-atom to create a three-dimensional model, much like a fingerprint...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Nobel Winner Huber Explores Proteins | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

...testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common for someone to buy a ton of ammonium nitrate." When FBI agents searched Nichols' home in Herington, they found a receipt for one of the purchases; it had McVeigh's fingerprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

MANAGEMENT FAILURES In 1986 the FBI launched an ambitious program to upgrade its computer systems, including computerized fingerprint scanners installed in police cars across the country. If that goal is ever realized, it will be four years late and double the cost projected. The upgrade effort is already such a mess, plagued by contractor and design lapses, that Congress refuses to fund it anymore. But Freeh maintains an ambitious vision: to build a whole new technological infrastructure to track global crime. "We have people with laptop computers in Russia moving money out of Citibank accounts in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...through the agency--the lab does as many as 600,000 examinations a year--especially those handled by the 10 lab workers faulted in the study. "We're going to get hundreds, if not thousands, of motions that are going to encompass every part of the lab, from latent-fingerprint comparisons to tire-tread analysis," says a ranking FBI agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: THE GANG THAT COULDN'T EXAMINE STRAIGHT | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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