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The use of measurements of several different parts of the body to file away criminals characteristics, to try to catch habitual criminals who use false names, as they come back through the system, known as bertillonage. Scientifically known as Anthropometry, "measurement of man," introduced by Alphonse Bertillon in France in 1883. The first fingerprint murder case solved, by men who had just heard by chance of them.

Moving on to the birth of fingerprinting. And the criminal / informant / head of a French police group Eugène François Vidocq. Famous for his escapes, he would gather information on his fellow criminals and escape from prison or on his way to jail, while those who actually went away didn't suspect him, until eventually they ended up on the block, where he treated them kindly in their last days.

Before scientific detective methods, torture was the way to find out guilt. And suspicion meant a guilty verdict the same way a witch was a witch once accused, because the confessions would come once the thumbscrews were applied, or the person in custody had successive 50 lb weights piled atop them in interrogation.

Before scientific detective methods, torture was the way to find out guilt. And suspicion meant a guilty verdict the same way a witch was a witch once accused, because the confessions would come once the thumbscrews were applied, or the person in custody had successive 50 lb weights piled atop them in interrogation.