The Knife in the Ice: How One Print Framed an Innocent Woman
The Knife in the Ice: How One Print Framed an Innocent Woman
A single partial fingerprint on a knife handle sent an otherwise unremarkable bookkeeper to jail and exposed a forensic cover-up; the knife was found standing perfectly vertical in a frozen culvert on December 9, 2014 - blade down, handle up - and one photo sequence captured it untouched. How did a lead evidence technician’s own left thumbprint end up three centimeters from the butt if the weapon sat upright in ice under clear daylight?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the physical evidence and the procedural…
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