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April 2010

April 19, 2010
Jerry Mitchell

DOJ may test fingerprints from MLK slaying

The Justice Department is considering a request to test unidentified fingerprints from the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Researchers of the April 4, 1968, assassination of King have suggested that unidentified fingerprints from the crime scene and elsewhere be run through the FBI’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System, which holds the fingerprints of more than 55 million people.

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