Fingerprint test may catch US killer

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Source: BBC
By Ben Ando
BBC News crime reporter

A British inventor's new fingerprinting technique has given fresh impetus to half a dozen unsolved cases and could help police identify the killer of a man shot dead 10 years ago in the US.

For detectives in the American city of Bristol, Connecticut, the 1998 murder case of Louis "Pete" LaFontaine remains the only unsolved killing on their books.

The local police team are determined to find the killer and that has prompted local detective Garrie Dorman to travel 3,500 miles to see if a little bit of British inventiveness can help.

He arrived carrying a polythene evidence bag containing shell cases from the scene of a shooting that has left US police baffled for nearly a decade.

In February 1998 electrical repairman Louis "Pete" LaFontaine was shot dead as he slept at his home in an affluent part of Bristol.

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