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focus on genetic fingerprinting. That's the technique that compares DNA at a crime scene to the DNA of possible

suspects. In today's episode, we'll talk about the earliest known instance of fingerprinting

being used in a murder case. Fingerprinting has to do with the ridges of people's fingers

that are unique to each person. Then we'll discuss a bizarre cold case that was solved because of fingerprinting.

The earliest known use of fingerprinting in criminal cases dates back to the Chin Dynasty,

which was 221 to 206 BC.

There are records that fingerprints were used in the investigation of burglaries.

Significant steps in the science of fingerprinting wouldn't happen for nearly 1800 years.

In 1686, using a newly invented instrument, the microscope, the Italian physiologist named Marcello Malpeji discovered that our hand

surfaces have ridges in them.

137 years later, in 1823, famed physiologist Jan Perkinji discovered nine categories of fingerprints.

Decades later, in the 1880s, Sir Francis Galton moved the signs of fingerprinting forward immensely.

Galton was the cousin of Charles Darwin. The signs of fingerprinting forward immensely.

Dalton was the cousin of Charles Darwin.

Dalton was examining fingerprints to see if they indicated anything about heredity.

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