... as long as 67 years to achieve the same result. After the results, it wasn't long before local television stations circulated photos of Ramirez. By August 30th, his photo was spread across Los Angeles. Ramirez was initially unaware of the latest developments. He embarked upon and returned from a cocaine-buying trip in Phoenix, only to spy his own face looking ... was sufficient to classify a positive match. By 1977, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had begun its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). This was a program that contained the computerized fingerprints of susp...

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