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What Can Alter Fingerprints?

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What Can Alter Fingerprints? Wertheim said that the ways criminals alter their fingerprints ranges from the low tech – rubbing the skin, burning fingertips on a stove, dousing fingers in acid, and self-mutilation using razors – to high tech surgery. What can cause fingerprints to change? Certain activities, diseases, chemicals, drugs, and genetic disorders can

Can Acid Remove Fingerprints?

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Can Acid Remove Fingerprints? Can acid remove fingerprints? Courtesy of Federal Bureau of Investigation. To modify Dillinger’s prints, Loeser cut away the outer layer of skin, the epidermis, and treated the fingertips with hydrochloric acid. He then scraped away the remaining visible ridges. Dillinger could not use his hands for days, but his fingertips grew