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Fig.3: Fingerprints collected of Francisa Rojas

An image of her original fingerprint card can be found in the US (Unit-

ed States) National Library of Medicine and is seen here.

Rojas was convicted in 1894 and sentenced to a lengthy stay in prison.

The Rojas case had opened the door (albeit slowly) for other murder

cases around the world to be solved using the perpetrators’ fingerprints
and in 1905, the United Kingdom used this new technique in a case

known as the Mask Murders.

REFERENCES:

• Fig 1:The Storyteller. (2021, September 17). The First Murder Case

Solved Using Fingerprinting. Medium. https://medium.com/@

story-teller/the-first-murder-case-solved-using-fingerprinting-bf-
c57ce20597

• Fig 2: National Institute Of Justice. (2013). The fingerprint source-

book. U.S. Dept. Of Justice, Office Of Justice Programs, National

Institute Of Justice. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/225320.pdf

• Fig 3: Fingerprint. (n.d.). Obscurehistories. https://www.obscurehis-

tories.com/fingerprinting

• FOR A WORLD-WIDE FINGER-PRINT PLAN; Dr. Vucetich,
Who Perfected Modern System of Identification, Would Extend Its

Use. (n.d.). The New York Times. http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/

timesmachine/1913/06/06/100627278.html?pageNumber=7

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