stackyFACTSBefore modern, highly accurate fingerprinting was widely trusted, police relied on a deeply flawed, exhausting identification method based heavily on what?
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
History →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Why did the US penal system instantly switch from taking body measurements to using fingerprints for inmates in 1903?
Discover more
When desperate, police will happily rely on completely untrained animals to solve massive crimes. Authorities imported highly praised tracking dogs to sniff…
Discover more
Forget sinister pacts with the devil; the real motivation for most witch trials was petty real estate disputes. If you wanted your neighbor's prime farmland…
Discover more
When did France finally stop using the guillotine as their official method of execution?
Discover more
During the intense medical boom of the eighteen hundreds, the lucrative black market demand for fresh human cadavers caused a terrifying surge in nighttime…
Discover more
Mystery novelist Agatha Christie famously faked her own disappearance in 1926, brilliantly sparking a massive nationwide manhunt involving thousands of…
Discover more