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Bertillon painstakingly measured prisoners' arm lengths, head circumferences, ear formations and other anatomical markers; made notes of tattoos and scars; and photographed their facial frontals and profiles. As he amassed this information, Bertillon developed a novel system for identifying inmates, which became referred to as criminal anthropometry. At this time, one of the mostly employed anthropometry techniques that hasn't changed all that much throughout the intervening century is the police sketch. The FBI cites an eye fixed witness sketch of Timothy McVeigh as a vital piece of evidence that finally introduced the mastermind of the Oklahoma City bombing to justice. Ten hours after the 1995 explosion on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 individuals, a forensic artist with the FBI's Investigative and Prosecutive Graphic Unit sketched out the perpetrator's face primarily based on interviews with people who had noticed McVeigh in Junction City, Kan. Having seen that relatively rudimentary FBI sketch, Oklahoma State Troopers who later arrested McVeigh on driving- and weapon-related fees unrelated to the bombing didn't release their suspicious-looking prisoner from jail.
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