As Inspector Warwick has a thumbprint left by Jack the Ripper at the scene of the final murder, he asks that something held by the chief suspect "Slade" be obtained. Since the Ripper murders occurred in 1888/89, this is three years before the first recorded case of a murderer being caught through fingerprint analysis--in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1892, when Inspector Eduardo Alvarez made the first criminal fingerprint identification. He was able to identify Francisca Rojas, a woman who murdered her two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to place blame on another. Her bloody print was left on a door post, proving her identity as the murderer.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 09:13