Photonics Uncovers Possible Clue to Boy's Killer
A 10-week-old fingerprint was 'lifted' with the help of a fluorescent dye and a 5-W diode-pumped laser. Ten-year-old Anthony Martinez was abducted and killed last April, and his nude, bound body dumped in a remote desert site in Berdoo Canyon, Calif. Despite an intense investigation, few clues to the identity of the boy's brutal killer have turned up. But the first real break in the highly publicized case may have come from a fingerprint discovered at the crime scene through the use of a forensic application of photonics, Riverside County sheriff's deputies say. The 10-week-old fingerprint...Read full article
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Published: September 1997