Where can I find copies of fingerprints of infamous people?

Answer 1

You might try the FBI and ask them if you can have a copy of something from their archives. Someone like "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Al Capone, Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, "Ma" Parker, those kind of friendly folk. I'd just ask for those who are dead. They might not send those who are still alive. Just ask, and give them a reason and they might. I've never tried it so, I don't know what they will say.

Answer 2

Fingerprints before this time table you will not find:
1823: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, a professor of anatomy at the University of Breslau, published his thesis discussing 9 fingerprint patterns, but he did not mention the use of fingerprints to identify persons. 1880: Dr Henry Faulds published his first paper on the subject in the scientific journal Nature in 1880. Returning to the UK in 1886, he offered the concept to the Metropolitan Police in London but it was dismissed. 1892: Sir Francis Galton published a detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and identification and encouraged its use in forensic science in his book Finger Prints.1892: Juan Vucetich, an Argentine police officer who had been studying Galton pattern types for a year, made the first criminal fingerprint identification. He successfully proved Francisca Rojas guilty of murder after showing that the bloody fingerprint found at the crime scene was hers, and could only be hers.

http://www.fbi.gov
http://www.cia.gov

Answer 3

The FBI, Interpol and Europol. Good luck!

With a _bit_ of luck the FBI will give you a copy of your _own_ FBI Identification Record ("Criminal History Record", "Rap Sheet") : "FBI Identification Record Request" : http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/fprequest.htm

Answer 4

at the scenes of crimes