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With DNA testing apparently inconclusive, investigators are pinning hopes on an array of forensic testing, including the garrote and duct tape used to strangle and gag the little girl, and handwriting and handprint analyses of the ransom note. Detectives are using advanced software to inspect and magnify crime-scene photos--a technique that enables them to examine minute marks on door locks. The probe is still hobbled by tensions between Hunter's office and the Boulder police. For six weeks the cops refused to share the DNA findings with the D.A., making them available only last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: SOLVING JONBENET'S MURDER BY THE BOOK | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

With the arrival last week of a set of "Identimat" handprint encoding machines and the narrowly aborted threat that our hands would be scanned electronically every time we are. It seemed to many people as thought the shadow of the Police State had passed over Harvard. One University vice-president voiced a general sentiment when he said that the new machines would be more appropriate in Leavenworth than in the Freshman Union, and he was expressing more than just a personal feeling of outrage--his reaction betrayed the sure instinct of a public relations officer confronted with botulism...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Thumb Screws and Firing Squads | 7/8/1975 | See Source »

...frowzy-and unlocked-communal bathroom where the killer waited for more than an hour before he could fire the fatal shot, investigators found a handprint, a thumbprint and an expended casing from his rifle. On the street outside the rooming house, where he occupied Room 5 with a clear view of King's motel across the way, he dropped his rifle and a blue overnight bag containing some clothes. All of these items and imprints gave the FBI and Memphis police a microscopic field day whose yield should provide invaluable courtroom evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man in Room 5 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...Poon also plans to recreate Grauman's Chinese Theater's wet cement act by recording Miss Wood's handprint for future Harvard students. "She might even mouth the words to a song from West Side Story," Lewis said hopefully...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Lampoon Fixes Date With Natalie; Wood Will Win 'Worst' on Saturday | 4/18/1966 | See Source »

...rely on indirect evidence. Witnesses placed Powers aboard a Miami-bound jet the afternoon of the murder and at the bar. But the Coke bottle never turned up, a palm print of Powers found in Mossler's kitchen could have been days old, and a bloody handprint on Mossler's body was unidentifiable. The white car, found at the airport, was bloodless; neighbors could testify only that it looked "similar" to the getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Mesmerism in Miami | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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