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Forensic Files

Sleight Of Hand

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

An elderly woman is murdered. Though investigators were able to lift prints from the scene, they failed to find a match and the crime went unsolved. Years later, advances in fingerprint science enable police to identify the print and the killer.

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0:00.0

In 1981, police found a partial print near a door knob at a crime scene.

0:12.4

But without a suspect, police had no way to compare the print to the one million prints

0:18.0

on file.

0:21.0

17 years later, new forensic technology changed that, breathing new life into what was a very

0:29.8

old crime.

0:44.2

Charles Whittlesey was one of this country's outstanding architects in the early 1900s.

0:50.9

He was the first to design poor concrete structures.

0:55.5

He designed and built all the train stations clear across the United States.

1:01.2

Albuquerque is one of his most famous and the next most famous, I would guess, would

1:05.2

be El Travar at the rim of the Grand Canyon, which he built in 1902.

1:11.5

Charles had four children, but his oldest daughter, Enid, identified with her father's

1:17.2

free spirit and creativity more than the others.

1:21.5

Enid shunned family pressure to attend college and instead headed to Vogueville.

1:27.3

At 817, she began her career as a Marion Morgan dancer.

1:32.9

She was also a singer, performing with the San Francisco Opera.

1:37.7

Enid never married, but she loved children.

1:41.5

As she grew older, she eventually found work as a governess, but by the 1950s, she retired

1:48.2

and moved into a family home on Simmeron Street in Los Angeles.

1:53.2

She never owned a car, but was a fixture in the neighborhood, riding on her bicycle,

1:59.1

stopping to talk and sometimes play with the neighborhood children.

2:04.0

She would relate to them a lot more so than she would to adults.

2:09.2

She had kind of almost a childlike quality about her.

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