1. Palm, Lip, Ear, Foot, Face Dr. M. Diamond
Other Prints
Palm, Lip, Ear, Foot, Face
Dr. M. Diamond

2. Palm Print Case October, 1993
Polly Klaas kidnapped from home during sleepover party
Description provided by other girls
Palm print left behind on bunk bed railing

3. November, 1993 Children’s clothing found on a hill 6 weeks later
Days before, police had helped Richard Allen Davis free his car from a nearby ditch
Davis on parole from two kidnapping convictions
Palm print matched
He confessed
Led police to body

4. Palm Print Database
Important – eight to ten times more minutiae than fingerprints
‘Livescan’ technology (computer digital) developed for fingerprinting
Now available for palm prints
‘Impression heavy’ crime scenes – 25-40% are palm prints
APIS

5. Digital Prints

6. Earprints 1994 – James McCann bludgeoned to death at home
Partial latent earprint in McCann’s bedroom
Evidence in murder case against David Wayne Kunze
Conviction overturned on appeal
Earprints may prove to be useful in future

7. Barefoot Morphology Research indicates that Database must be increased
No two people have the same foot shape
Unique patterns to the weight bearing part of the foot
Database must be increased

8. Face Print 1984 – Juanita Gillette died suddenly
Husband (Ronald) blamed it on medication
But no lethal amounts of meds. in tissues
Ronald re-married immediately (within days)
Police found a plastic laundry bag with a nose indentation
Clear impression of Juanita’s face on bag
Ronald arrested and convicted

9. Lip Prints No study showing individuality of lip characteristics
No accepted methodology for comparing lip print characteristics
No standards
No endorsement by FBI or other law enforcement agencies
But… lipstick samples can be tested chemically to identify type, color

10. Future Eye scans Tattoo mapping Facial patterns
Iris scans record more detail than fingerprints
Accuracy – odds of misidentification 1:1.2million for one eye, 1:1.44 trillion for both
Remember GATTACA?
Tattoo mapping
Facial patterns
FBI gearing up to start database
Privacy concerns?