The Fingerprint That Hanged the Wrong Science
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The Fingerprint That Hanged the Wrong Science

A murderer walked free in Argentina in 1892, because a mother's bloody thumbprint was the first in history to solve a crime, and nobody was ready for it.

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ArgentinaSouth America19th CenturyForensic ScienceColonial KnowledgeCrimeJuan VucetichBritish Empire

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