Word: fingerprinting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragic saga of Jonestown was far from over. At Dover, teams of military pathologists, FBI technicians and civilian embalmers worked to identify the 911 corpses (the count now seemed official and final) and prepare them for burial or cremation. Yet the condition of the remains and the lack of fingerprint records for many victims meant the process was slow-and in many cases would prove futile. Autopsies were to be conducted on seven bodies: Cult Leader Jim Jones, Cult Physician Larry Schacht and five others selected at random. Officials decided that trying to pin down the precise cause of death...
...fashioned fingerprint work did the rest. Though the bandits were supposed to wear gloves, some of them slipped up. A clear print was found on a Monopoly set, another on a bathtub rail...
Carr was arrested in Boston on charges that he had failed to obey an order by a Michigan federal court to cease violating securities laws. After Carr was released on $100,000 bail, authorities believe, he fled to Bermuda or the Cayman islands. An FBI fingerprint check revealed that "James Carr" was really one Alan Abrahams, an escaped convict with a 22-year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much...
...Haydee Beltran Torres, 22, and two others. All are the educated children of Puerto Rican immigrants. Carlos Torres, soon to be the newest addition to the FBI's Most Wanted list, attended the University of Illinois; his wife, a high school honors graduate, faces a murder charge: her fingerprint was found on an employment application left at the site of a 1976 bombing that blew off the back of the head of a bystander...
...Jerrold Gibson '51, under fire for last winter's bursars card fiasco, announces plans to fingerprint every student at Harvard. "The only problem now," Gibson explained, "is to indicate whether a student is on board...