Word: fingerprinters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three minutes after California's new automated fingerprint identification system received its first assignment, the crime-stopping computer scored a direct hit. It matched a smudged print lifted from an orange Toyota in Los Angeles to one taken from a 25-year-old drifter with a record of drug and auto-theft arrests. Two days later, Richard Ramirez was caught and charged with one of 15 murders attributed to the Night Stalker, the serial killer who had been terrorizing the city for the past seven months...
...aftermath, police discovered an orange Toyota station wagon, stolen earlier, that they believe was used by the killer on the night of the attack. By tracing a fingerprint found in the car, authorities announced a "positive identification" of the suspected killer: Richard Ramirez, a native of El Paso, Texas, who has been drifting around Los Angeles and San Francisco for several years. The following day, Ramirez was seized in East Los Angeles. Police said he was chased and beaten by a crowd, apparently after trying to steal a car from a woman...
Before finding Ramirez's fingerprint, investigators had been baffled by the lack of a discernible pattern in the attacks. Serial murderers usually seek out a particular kind of victim, but the Night Stalker assaulted people ranging in age from 16 to 84. He had killed men and women, Asians as well as whites. In two cases he reportedly left behind written messages. Police confirmed that the killer had a distinctive trademark, but to avoid copycat assaults, they were tight-lipped about what...
...much tried parent, discovering that he had apparently looted some $2 million from her investment account, threatened to cut him out of her will and the family enterprises; in Naples, Fla. Evidence linking him to the crime included his known familiarity with explosives and electronics and a latent fingerprint of his found on the remains of one of the bombs...
...awkward symbol for both the Government and its critics. Morison's fingerprint turned up on one of three U.S. satellite pictures that had disappeared from the desk of an NISC colleague and found their way into foreign hands. The photos showed a Soviet aircraft carrier under construction at a Black Sea port. The Government, however, cannot contend that Morison was dealing with an enemy: he turned over the pictures to Jane's Defence Weekly, a British magazine that published them last August. FBI analysis of the ribbon in Morison's office typewriter indicated that he wrote two letters...