Fingerprint Identification Report

When it comes to finding fingerprints, it is best to look in numerous locations around the home. There were ten different fingerprints found in the search, to include complete and non-complete prints. Many different items were used for finding prints, for instance the oven, refrigerator, kitchen counter, toilet button, bathroom door, mirror, television, car door, computer, and the iron. Almost all of the prints were pulled from the house except for the car door. The car door prints were pulled from a car in my driveway. The oven, refrigerator, kitchen counter prints were all pulled from the kitchen. The toilet button, bathroom door, and mirror prints were all found in the downstairs bathroom. The computer, television, and iron prints were all found in the loft. Since there was a coming home party I was able to pull numerous prints from the different items.

The supplies that were used in the pulling of the prints were unsweetened cocoa powder, a large makeup brush, index cards, scotch tape and a magnifying glass. To …show more content…
The car door was the only place that had not received high traffic. From a total of 40 different prints found in the numerous location, in the identification process and a result of 16 prints compared in detail between all of them, following the different patters loop, whorl and arch (Crime Scene Forensics, LLC, 2012.)

In the identification process there was only one magnifying glass used in the study of the prints. The first step was to use the identification of the different patterns, after the identification and classification of the fingerprints, when it was not easy to determine which was loop, whorl, or arch because so of them were incomplete. If there was an instance when the print did not match up or there is similarity the ridge end, delta, and other details to verify the prints were then