EPISODE 52: Check The Fine Print

Paul and Kate head to early 1900s England where a shopkeeper and his wife are found brutally beaten to death. After the investigation leans heavily on very nascent fingerprinting evidence, would the jury convict? 

Sources:

“ALFRED STRATTON, ALBERT ERNEST STRATTON.” (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey) May 2nd 1905.  

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t19050502-415&div=t19050502-415 

“All about Fingerprints and Other Impressions” by Katherine Ramsland (Crime Library)  

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210061108/http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/fingerprints/2.html 

The Stratton Brothers (The Forensics Library)  

http://aboutforensics.co.uk/the-stratton-brothers/ 

“Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case” (History) 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fingerprint-evidence-is-used-to-solve-a-british-murder-case 

“Advances in Fingerprint Technology: Second Edition” by Henry C. Lee and R. E. Gaensslen  

https://archive.org/details/AdvancesInFingerprintTechnology/Advances%20in%20Fingerprint%20Technology%20Second%20Edition/mode/2up?q=stratton   

“The U.K.’s first murder case solved by a fingerprint” (Capital Punishment UK)  

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/strattons.html 

“'Mask murder' brothers hanged for slaughter of pensioners during a botched robbery were the first convicted of murder using finger print evidence” by Steve Myall (Mirror) 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/mask-murder-brothers-hanged-slaughter-12220468 

“Anthropometry” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)  

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/anthropometry/default.html