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Concern widened five days after Elsroth's death, when five more cyanide capsules were found in a Tylenol bottle taken from a Woolworth store just two blocks from the Bronxville A & P. The second group of contaminated capsules contained the same chemical "fingerprint" as was found in the bottle opened for Elsroth. And as with that deadly container, the tamper-resistant seals on the second bottle appeared untouched. Some of the capsules inside, however, had been opened and reclosed. This bottle, from a different lot, had been filled at a McNeil plant in Puerto Rico...
...career student from Maidstone, England, recently developed a new fingerprint coding method for the FBI in his spare time. Malcolm K. Sparrow, a British police officer whose hobby is working with fingerprints, says he hopes the program will help him prepare for his new appointment as Chief Inspector, and move him closer to his ultimate goal of attaining the highest position in the force...
...there it was. The sight, however, was decidedly unspectacular. Because it was still too far from the sun to sport a visible tail, and 58 million miles away from earth, the comet looked like little more than a smudged and dusty fingerprint. Or, as Hyron Spinrad, a cosmologist from the University of California, Berkeley, declared, "It's a wimp." Still, everyone was delighted. For the skywatchers, the appearance of Halley's was a once-in-a- lifetime event, and they viewed it as a sort of psychological and even spiritual landmark. Said Astronomer Susan Wyckoff of Arizona State University...
They were right. The city of San Francisco started using a NEC fingerprint system in 1984 and almost immediately began picking up prints that previous searches had missed. Flipping through 650 prints a second, the new computer took only seven minutes to identify a man who had fatally shot a 47-year-old woman during a 1978 robbery attempt. In its first four days of operation, the system cracked 34 unsolved cases. News of the computer's remarkable performance traveled quickly. One month later, NEC sold a second system to the state of Alaska, and eight months after that, California...
...case, technicians in Sacramento were still loading records from the old system into the new when the suspect print was lifted from an automobile linked to the killer. At the urgent request of police, four NEC programmers worked all night to finish the job. The following day, after the fingerprint had been scanned and digitized, the computer compared it with 380,000 stored in its memory and spit out the names of the ten people whose prints most closely resembled it. At the top of the list, with a probability rating four times as high as that of the nearest...