Unlikely Duo: Pursuing a Brutal Serial Killer

Two cops on the trail of a brutal serial killer must see as one, act as one, and think as one before the next victim falls. Lincoln Rhyme is an intelligent forensics detective who was paralyzed in the line of duty, when he was shot by a bullet. He is the author of several books; he has a good sense of detail and a nose for clues that have made him a living legend. Amelia Donaghy is a street-smart policewoman in her twenties, who’s good at finding clues and the reason Lincoln has so much interest in her. On her last day as a street cop, before being transferred to an easy desk job, Amelia discovers a corpse, covered in stones by a railroad track. She saves evidence at the crime scene; this is where Lincoln gains his interest for her. Lincoln

There was a multitude of evidence collected by the detective in the movie: photographs, objects left behind like tools and bones, weapons, restraining devices, and newspaper clips and other things. In one scene the killer takes a man and ties him to a poll in an abandon area. He leaves wooden planks down the victim. He cuts him just enough to allow for the rats to pick up the scent of the blood. Sometime later the rats get to him, and tear him to parts. By the time Amelia gets to the victim he is gone. The only thing left for her is to retrieve the evidence left at the scene. One method that she used to capture this evidence is fingerprints; eventually taken by other investigators. There was a fingerprint left behind which they then checked the box for prints. She was trying to see if the killer finally made a fatal mistake in his crusade of murders, but sadly he had cut the finger off of another man. They found the person by what seems to be the IAFIS program, which was established and used by the FBI and used by many states. A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. AFIS is a biometric identification methodology, and there are many of them. When you take one’s Fingerprints and upload them to a national database for the FBI, this is called IAFIS; the name is given to once specific AFIS, by the FBI. This is a national fingerprint and criminal history program. Fingerprinting is used in criminal investigation and other cases, like fraud prevention. A theory behind fingerprints is how our fingerprints begin to have our own characteristics. The theory of relativity in fingerprints, and it says that we inherit some characteristics of our parent’s fingerprints. We may get their fingerprint type, but our own unique characteristics, like ridge endings, bridges, etc. It could be used to help figure out