FBI catches fugitive nearly 50 years after his escape from custody with new fingerprint technology

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[–]Sonofzeus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

awww shiiieeet not again

[–]Nemacolin[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One more thing to worry about.

The FBI has announced the arrest of Leonard Rayne Moses nearly half a century after he escaped custody in 1971. Moses fled while serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of Mary Amplo during civil unrest that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Investigators were able to catch Moses Thursday in Michigan through the FBI's Next Generation Identification system. The system matched Moses' 1968 fingerprints to fingerprints taken during a local Michigan state arrest in 2020, said Michael Christman, FBI Pittsburgh's special agent in charge, during a press conference.

"It's these new advances in technology that the FBI must continue to identify and use to make sure those who commit crimes are brought to justice," Christman wrote in a statement.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

/u/americanmuskrat “The CSI effect”, I presume? ;)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Faith in fingerprints is a little older than the CSI effect. They both have serious issues.

Yet it also became clear, over time, that fingerprinting wasn’t as rock solid as boosters would suggest. Police experts would often proclaim in court that “no two people have identical prints”—even though this had never been proven, or even carefully studied. (It’s still not proven.) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/myth-fingerprints-180971640/

So even as fingerprints were viewed as unmistakable, plenty of people were mistakenly sent to jail. Simon Cole notes that at least 23 people in the United States have been wrongly connected to crime-scene prints.* In North Carolina in 1985, Bruce Basden was arrested for murder and spent 13 months in jail before the print analyst realized he’d made a blunder.

Nonetheless, the reliability of fingerprinting today is rarely questioned in modern courts

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I was just joking with you lmao! 😘

Edit: I still think you’re a negative Nancy tho && this proves it!!!!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't have much faith in the legal system.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Could one blame you?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, people who haven't gone through the legal system generally have no idea what it's like. Sure, most people probably figure it's not totally like it is on TV but they don't realize that's a completely fictional representation. Surprised me anyways. It's just so random and arbitrary. Circumstantial evidence is totally fine too, people go to death row on that alone.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry, I only know the title from online. I do not watch US TV.

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I had made a comment a couple of weeks ago and AM replied to me about the “CSI effect”, I was just joking with them!

Completely off topic, sorry!