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It’s the chopping off of the guy’s finger, right? The Sopranos s6e8: Johnny Cakes, Tony, HBO 2007
Some estimates claim that up to a half of all Yakuza members have sacrificed a finger to their boss. Yakuza: Gangster Brotherhood
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks
I intend to do the Penn & Teller Show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers. Penn Jillette
One of a tiny handful of people who are born without fingerprints. Michael Mosley, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You II, BBC 2015
Fingerprinting – it is being done; there are schools now where [children are] fingerprinted in order to get their school dinners; they make it a game for the children. Brian Gerrish, lecture British Constitution Group 2009, ‘The State of the Nation’
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints ... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. Douglas Coupland
A thumbprint from the thief. Fingerprinting was a relatively new science. Art of the Heist: Missing Mona Lisa
First used in a small town in Argentina fingerprint identification became one of the most important forensic tools in the world. Bank robber John Dillinger tried to have his fingerprints burnt off with acid in 1934. The Night Stalker, History Channel
Forensic fingerprinting is becoming ever more complicated. ibid.
Fingerprints: Thomas and Ann Farrow, an elderly couple, managed a shop selling inks and paints. Two men had gained entry to the shop and attacked the Farrows … The thieves Albert and Alfred Stratton found the shop’s cashbox in the bedroom … They should have been wearing gloves … They left behind a crucial piece of evidence: a thumbprint … Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals II: Traces of Guilt, BBC 2015
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 16th January 2009: I came home and my husband’s tied up. He’s not breathing. Help me! Accused: Guilty or Innocent? s1e2: Cold Case Killer or Innocent Teenage Girl? 911 call, ITVX 2022
The case went cold until ten years later. ibid. caption
Police found 68-year-old Franklin Bonner’s body. His home was ransacked and Bonner had ducktape over his mouth and nose which caused him to suffocate. ibid. news
Angel Bumpass was a child at the time of the murder. The court has decided she will be tried as an adult. ibid. caption
The defense team is exploring how Angel’s fingerprints could have got on the duct-tape. ibid.
You have nine unidentified fingerprints. ibid. defense
Mallory Vaughn not guilty; the defendant guilty of first-degree murder … Angel is sentenced to 60 years in prison.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge dismissed the case against a woman who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in the slaying of a man who was bound with duct tape and robbed when she was 13 years old.
Hamilton County Judge Amanda Dunn on Tuesday dismissed the first-degree murder and aggravated robbery convictions of Angel Bumpass, 28, news outlets reported.
Bumpass was 24 when she was convicted in 2019 in the slaying of Franklin Bonner, 68. A medical examiner determined he suffocated after being bound to a kitchen table with duct tape covering his feet, arms, nose and mouth in 2009. AP news article 9th August 2023, ‘A Tennessee judge throws out the case of a woman convicted of murder committed when she was 13’