CJ 328 Forensic Fingerprint Analysis Paper

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Unit 6 Assignment

Alondra Negrete

Purdue University Global

UNIT 6 ASSIGNMENT 2 2

The power of the AFIS

In the year 1978, a 61-year-old man named Carroll Bonnet was brutally murder at his

apartment. When police found his body, they collected evidence such as latent fingerprints and

palmprints left in the victim's bathroom. They also notice that the victim's car was stolen. When

the investigation started Carroll's, the car was found in Illinois, investigators found additional

latent prints, but the evidence had no new leads. At the time they search against local and state

fingerprint files and even fingerprint request was made to agencies outside Nebraska, but no

matches were found. The case went cold as a result of not finding any leads to the murder of

Carroll Bonnet.

In 2008, the Omaha Police Department re-open the investigation since a new system was

introduced (IAFIS) and was not available in 1978. They run the latent fingerprints, and in less

than five hours, they had possible candidates to compare the evidence. Laura Casey, a technician,

spent several days examining the prints and came up with identification. The murder was said to

be Jerry Watson, and now he was serving time in an Illinois prison on burglary charges. Since

the case was re-open, laboratory technicians and analysts did an extensive examination. They

found out that Jerry Watson lived a few blocks away from where the victim's car was abandoned.

This discovery was made just days before Watson was released from prison.

Based on the identification of prints with Watson and the prints from the crime scene,

authorities requested a DNA sample. After examining the DNA, it determined that the sample

and the DNA found at the crime scene was a match. As a result, Jerry Watson was found guilty

and convicted on October 17, 2011 (33 years later) for the murder of Carroll Bonnet and

sentenced for life in prison. The AFIS demonstrates how technology plays a vital role in fighting

dangerous criminals by putting them behind bars and giving victims the justice they deserve.

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Running head: CJ 328 Forensic Fingerprint Analysis Unit 6 Assignment Alondra Negrete Purdue University Global 1 UNIT 6 ASSIGNMENT 2 2 The power of the AFIS In the year 1978, a 61-year-old man named Carroll Bonnet was brutally murder at his apartment. When police found his body, they collected evidence such as latent fingerprints and palmprints left in the victim's bathroom. They also notice that the victim's car was stolen. When the investigation started Carroll's, the car was found in Illinois, investigators found additional latent prints, but the evidence had no new leads. At the time they search against local and state fingerprint files and even fingerprint request was made to agencies outside Nebraska, but no matches were found. The case went cold as a result of not finding any leads to the murder of Carroll Bonnet. In 2008, the Omaha Police Department re-open the investigation ...
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