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Episode 125 - Making a Murderer (Part 4?) Mar 10, 2016

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Glenn and Eric read a couple of emails from non-examiners that came across our Making a Murderer episodes. We ended up spending this whole episode talking about the ideas and comments from those emails. Unrelated to the episode is the image thumbnail. This is the Christmas gift to our patron in Indianapolis. Turn the image upside-down and it says 'fingerprint'.

Episode 124 - Making a Murderer Questions Feb 27, 2016

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Glenn and Eric answer some questions from an email that came in after the Making a Murderer episodes. Is all the extra time used to shield ourselves from bias worth the effort? Do the fact-finders and the general public want our conclusions expressed as associations instead of identifications? Which of our customers decides? The officers, accreditation boards, judges, attorneys, jurors, legislatures?

Episode 122 - Making a Murderer - Part 2 Feb 07, 2016

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Eric and Glenn continue their discussion of the popular Netflix documentary including further discussions of the physical evidence, the EDTA test, things not discussed in the documentary, and the entire concept of true crime as entertainment.

Episode 121 - Making a Murderer - Part 1 Feb 01, 2016

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Glenn and Eric start a two-part podcast discussion on the twisty case of Stephen Avery, now an extremely popular documentary on Netflix. As they wind their way through this very interesting case, the guys try to keep the focus on the physical evidence available and how that all played in to the convictions in this case.

Episode 113 - Madrid Error - Part 3 Nov 22, 2015

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Eric and Glenn complete their series on the Madrid Bombing Fingerprint Error from the FBI. Even more than 10 years after the error was revealed, there are still very interesting things to learn about this error that led to so many changes and improvements in the latent fingerprint comparison field.

Episode 112 - Madrid Error - Part 2 Nov 12, 2015

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Glenn and Eric continue through the timeline of the Madrid Error or the Brandon Mayfield erroneous fingerprint identification. The guys learn all sorts of new things from the full OIG report that sometimes reveal a new understanding and sometimes contradict the commonly held beliefs of the public and the experts.

Episode 111 - Madrid Error - Part 1 Nov 11, 2015

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Glenn and Eric begin a 3-part review of the full report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on the Madrid Bombing or Brandon Mayfield error from the FBI. This episode starts with a general overview and begins looking at the timeline, including some common misconceptions and inaccuracies that have been taught in fingerprint training classes.

Episode 108 - Alabama Erroneous ID Oct 16, 2015

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Eric and Glenn talk through the recent news that Beniah Dandridge was wrongly convicted for murder and has served 19 years in an Alabama prison after an erroneous fingerprint identification and other bad witnesses led to his conviction. Major legal issues are coming to light as the courts continued to refuse to re-hear the case even after evidence of Dandridge's guilt was refuted.

Episode 36 - Teresa Wu Interview May 06, 2014

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Glenn and Eric interview Teresa Wu from 3M/Cogent about the company and new research into preventing errors and statistical models. This episode sponsored by 3M / Cogent

Episode 04 - Who the Hell Are Glenn and Eric - Part 2 Sep 17, 2013

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Eric interviews Glenn about how he got started in latent prints and his favorite time teaching. The guys then discuss regional differences in the latent print field including terms, definitions, and powder color.

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