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Meanwhile the FBI, Postal Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have beefed up their 150-member, San Francisco-based, Unabomber task force. In Washington and New York City, experts have examined the manuscripts and letters for clues -- a giveaway mistake like a fingerprint, the indentation of a phone number on a package -- that would provide the identity and whereabouts of the elusive killer. Nothing so far, though, has changed their profile of Unabomber as a single white male, probably in his early 40s, with at least a high school education and some experience, even if indirect, with higher...
After Harvard police discovered the letter at The Crimson, they turned it over to state police. Those authorities will conclude fingerprint, handwriting and other tests on the letter this week, according to First Assistant District Attorney Martin F. Murphy...
...validity of his confession, however, is heatedly disputed -- no small matter since police have no witnesses, no weapon, not even a fingerprint, to further link Davis to the Biebel case. The police insist that Davis offered his confession without prompting; Davis counters that it was coerced under threat of death. Now, a coalition of Illinois activists-among them a former Chicago police chief, a retired judge, author Studs Terkel and several prosecutors-is scrambling to rescue Davis from execution by lethal injection this Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. at the Menard Correctional Center...
...descriptions of husbands and wives, sons and daughters, hoping someone might have seen them alive. They faxed descriptions to hospitals. On Thursday, at least 300 people flooded First Christian Church bearing dental records, descriptions of birthmarks or other features that might help in the dreaded identification process. Forensic dentists, fingerprint squads and X-ray teams combined to examine the remains for clues, not only to the victims' identities, but also for bits of wire or shrapnel that might help lead investigators to the type of bomb used. Visual identification by relatives was a last resort...
...technique, also known as DNA typing or fingerprinting, is based on the fact that although the majority of DNA is the same in all humans, certain unique patterns exist in every person, except identical twins. DNA profiling distinguishes among samples by using these differences like a regular fingerprint. Experts have called the technique "the most significant breakthrough in forensic science since the development of fingerprinting...