
Early 20th Century
Fingerprints Convicted One Man and Freed Another
Fingerprint evidence—the new miracle of modern crime-solving—sent an innocent man to prison in 1911 for a murder he didn't commit, while the actual killer's prints sat in a police file the entire time.
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