The criminologist linked the increase in the detection of old crimes with the development of technology

The disclosure of crimes of previous years, including the murders in the Ryazan region in 1994 and the massacre of a family in Yamal in 1997, became possible thanks to a technological breakthrough in criminology, criminologist, author of the book "Notes of an Old Detective" Valentin Stanovov told Izvestia.

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According to him, there is always a sufficient amount of biomaterial at the murder site, which has been stored for years, awaiting the development of technology.

"Today, the Papilon fingerprint database is no longer powerless. This is no longer just a fingerprint scanner, but a neural network giant. The system analyzes micro-signs of papillary patterns that the human eye is unlikely to catch," said the source.

The federal genomic information database also plays a key role, the criminologist added. If in the last century experts could not qualitatively isolate DNA from dried blood, now it has become a routine procedure.

Murders are among the most "material" crimes, which explains the increase in the number of solved cases in recent years, Stanovov concluded.

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