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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview | |
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| Firearms and Fingerprints in the Crime Lab | |
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| Firearms and Fingerprints at the Crime Scene | |
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| The Beltway Sniper Case | |
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| The Reconstruction of Crimes Using Firearms and Fingerprint Evidence | |
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| Conspicuous Absence | |
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| Putting It All Together for the Jury | |
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| How to Become a Firearms or Fingerprint Examiner | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Brief History of Firearms and Fingerprints and the Scientists Involved | |
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| Firearms and the Evidence They Provide | |
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| Firearms Examination Emerges As a Discipline | |
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| Food for Thought: Individualization | |
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| Early Firearms Examinations in the United States | |
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| Professor Alexandre Lacassagne: A Pioneer in Bloodstain Analysis | |
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| The Brownsville Riot and Cartridge Case Comparisons | |
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| Professor Victor Balthazard and Bullet Comparison in France | |
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| Calvin Goddard and the Beginnings of Modern Firearms Examination in the United States | |
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| Fingerprints: What They Are and How They Are Produced | |
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| Ridge Characteristics | |
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| Johannes Purkinje and the First Attempt at Fingerprint Classification | |
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| Henry Faulds and William Herschel and the "Who Was First?" Controversy | |
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| Alphonse Bertillon and the Transition to Dactylography | |
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| Sir Francis Galton's Fingerprint System | |
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| Juan Vucetich's Fingerprint System | |
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| Sir Edward Henry's System: The Dawn of Modern Fingerprint Identification | |
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| Scientific Principles, Instrumentation, and Equipment | |
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| The Theory of Individual Identification and the Scientific Method | |
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| Firearms Identification | |
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| Applying the Scientific Method | |
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| Firearms Examination Equipment | |
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| Specialized Equipment for Shooting Reconstruction | |
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| Laboratory Methods for Firearms Evidence | |
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| Firearms Testing: Sympathetic Firing | |
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| Identifying the Use of a Sound Suppressor | |
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| Ball Powder Goes the Distance | |
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| Automated Comparison of Firearms Evidence | |
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| The Community Gun | |
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| Latent Print Examination and Comparison | |
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| The Low-Tech Approach to Fingerprints | |
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| Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence | |
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| Chemistry and Fingerprints | |
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| Fingerprints and Modern Technology | |
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| The Fingerprint Examiner at the Crime Scene | |
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| The Automated Fingerprint Identification System | |
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| To Err Is Human | |
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| Forensic Applications | |
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| Reconstructing Shootings Using Firearms-Related Evidence at the Scene | |
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| The Crime Lab's Role in Shooting Reconstruction | |
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| Ignorance Is Not Bliss | |
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| The Crime Lab's Role in Criminal Investigation | |
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| Ironclad Alibi | |
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| The Role of Fingerprints in Crime Scene Reconstruction | |
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| A Double Homicide in Arizona | |
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| Shots Fired at a Moving Vehicle Kill the Young Driver | |
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| A Staged Crime Scene Is Uncovered by Investigators | |
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| Homicide or Suicide? An Unusual Case That Leaves Investigators Puzzled | |
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| The Future | |
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| Fingerprints and DNA | |
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| Firearms, Fingerprints, and DNA | |
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| The Eyes May Have It | |
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| Firearms That Can "Talk" | |
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| Phantom Firearms | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Breakthrough: Reading Fingerprints Even after They Are Gone | |
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| A New Application of Old Techniques | |
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| Arising Legal Challenges | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |