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Sep 4, 2026

Unknown podcast

FBI Closes Case On Colonial Parkway Double-Murder After Confirming Suspect

Sep 4 · 1 Mention

speaker_3UNKNOWN
21:37
It is, but it's crucial.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
21:39
Today if a crime happens, evidence is entered into national databases like CODIS for DNA or AFIS for fingerprints.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
21:47
Algorithms search for patterns across state and county lines in milliseconds
speaker_2UNKNOWN
21:52
It's all connected now

Unknown podcast

Identifying Jeremiah Garretson: The 2019 Cook County Case Solved

Sep 3 · 4 Mentions

speaker_2UNKNOWN
6:58
So they take these two gold standard pillars of forensic science and they plug them into the national databases.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
7:04
They put the DNA into CODIS, the Combined DNA Index System, and they run the prints through AFIS, the Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
7:14
And the machine gives them nothing.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
7:16
Zero matches.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
7:56
Well, lying might be a strong word, but they are certainly relying on a highly condensed dramatized version of reality.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
8:02
Okay.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
8:03
What's fascinating here is that the CSI effect has created this massive public misunderstanding of what CODIS and AFIS actually are.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
8:11
They are not universal encyclopedias of humanity.

Unknown podcast

Justice Delayed: Ohio’s 1985 Holiday Inn Murder Solved

Sep 1 · 1 Mention

speaker_2UNKNOWN
16:42
It's basically instantaneous.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
16:43
But in 1985, AFIS was in its absolute infancy.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
16:48
It was heavily localized, fractured, and largely manual.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
16:52
Fingerprints were stored on physical 10-print paper cards in filing cabinets.

Unknown podcast

Justice After Decades: The 1972 Phyllis Bailer Murder Solved

Sep 1 · 1 Mention

speaker_2UNKNOWN
10:32
Right.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
10:32
AFIS wasn't really a thing yet.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
10:34
The Automated Fingerprint Identification System didn't exist in a meaningful national way back then.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
10:41
A fingerprint was only useful if you already had a suspect in custody, and you could physically compare their inked finger to the print from the car.

Unknown podcast

The Coach and the Clothes Hanger: A 40-Year Cold Case

Aug 31 · 2 Mentions

speaker_1UNKNOWN
34:03
His fingerprints were taken during that booking process.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
34:05
Now, this explains why he didn't hit in the AFIS database in 1998.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
34:09
The 1984 fingerprints were old smeared ink and paper prints.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
34:13
They lacked the necessary clarity and minutia points to be digitized and recognized by the computer algorithms of the late nineties.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
34:20
Right.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
34:21
AFIS algorithms rely on mapping specific ridge endings and bifurcations on an X Y axis.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
34:27
If an old ink print is over inked or slightly smudged, the computer cannot plot those geometric points rendering the print invisible to the digital search even though the physical card exists in a filing cabinet.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
34:37
Exactly.

Unknown podcast

Finding Windy Buchanan: The Case of Penny Doe Resolved

Aug 31 · 1 Mention

speaker_4UNKNOWN
16:47
Right But If youre listening and wondering why none of those standard procedures worked we need to dig into the limitations of Nineteen Nineties forensics Like Why didn't fingerprints give them a name on day one?
speaker_5UNKNOWN
16:58
Well because Fingerprints are only useful if the victim's prints already exist in a comparable database Yeah In Nineteen Ninety the Automated Fingerprint Identification System or AFIS was still relatively nascent It was highly fragmented.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
17:13
It wasnt this big national net yet.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
17:15
Exactly and more importantly Those databases were primarily populated with the prints of individuals who had prior criminal arrests or maybe specific government clearances.

Unknown podcast

Murder In Moscow: The Experts Behind The case Against Bryan Kohberger (Part 3) (8/22/26)

Aug 23 · 1 Mention

Bobby CapucciHOST
5:49
Latent prints are also evaluated for their suitability for database entry.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:55
AFIS, ABIS, MBIS, etc.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:58
Comparison is the side-by-side, back-and-forth examination of friction-ridge detail between the latent print and known print to determine whether the detail is in agreement or disagreement based upon features, sequences, and spatial relationships within the tolerance of clarity and distortion.
Bobby CapucciHOST
6:17
Generally, latent prints are first compared against various known prints belonging to subjects associated with the evidence, victims, witnesses, and or suspects if known.
Beyond The Horizon

Beyond The Horizon

Murder In Moscow: The Experts Behind The case Against Bryan Kohberger (Part 3) (8/21/26)

Aug 22 · 1 Mention

Bobby CapucciHOST
5:49
Latent prints are also evaluated for their suitability for database entry.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:55
AFIS, ABIS, MBIS, etc.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:59
Comparison is the side-by-side, back-and-forth examination of friction-rich detail between the latent print and known print to determine whether the detail is in agreement or disagreement based upon features, sequences, and spatial relationships within the tolerance of clarity and distortion.
Bobby CapucciHOST
6:17
Generally, latent prints are first compared against various known prints belonging to subjects associated with the evidence, victims, witnesses, and or suspects if known.

Unknown podcast

Murder In Moscow: The Experts Behind The case Against Bryan Kohberger (Part 3) (8/21/26)

Aug 22 · 1 Mention

Bobby CapucciHOST
5:48
Latent prints are also evaluated for their suitability for database entry.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:55
AFIS, ABIS, MBIS, etc.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:58
Comparison is the side-by-side, back-and-forth examination of friction-rich detail between the latent print and known print to determine whether the detail is in agreement or disagreement based upon features, sequences, and spatial relationships within the tolerance of clarity and distortion.
Bobby CapucciHOST
6:17
Generally, latent prints are first compared against various known prints belonging to subjects associated with the evidence, victims, witnesses, and or suspects if known.

Unknown podcast

Murder In Moscow: The Experts Behind The case Against Bryan Kohberger (Part 3) (8/21/26)

Aug 21 · 1 Mention

Bobby CapucciHOST
5:18
Latent prints are also evaluated for their suitability for database entry.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:25
AFIS, ABIS, MBIS, etc.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:28
Comparison is a side-by-side back-and-forth examination of friction ridge detail between the latent print and known print to determine whether the detail is in agreement or disagreement based upon features, sequences, and spatial relationships within the tolerance of clarity and distortion.
Bobby CapucciHOST
5:47
Generally, latent prints are first compared against various known prints belonging to subjects associated with the evidence, victims, witnesses, and or suspects if known.

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