Fingerprints 102: Innovator Bertillon Only Partial-ly Accurate

(Don’t forget to read Fingerprints 101 for more about their initial discovery, Anthropometry, and the early applications in solving crime.) In the late nineteenth century, criminal identification was largely done by using Rogues’ Galleries, photographs of known criminals held in massive books that required hours to search. Enter Alphonse Bertillon, poster boy for high school…