Did you know that the very fingerprint technology we use today—from unlocking phones to solving crimes- can be traced back to a visionary from the tiny Croatian island of Hvar?
Meet Ivan Vučetić (1858–1925), the pioneer who transformed forensic science. After emigrating to Argentina in 1882, Vučetić developed the first organized system for collecting and classifying fingerprints, known as dactyloscopy.
His groundbreaking method made history in 1892, when a bloody fingerprint helped solve the Francisca Rojas case, marking the first homicide in the world solved through fingerprint evidence. Within a decade, police forces across South America, Europe, and the U.S. adopted his system- a legacy that lives on in modern fingerprint identification. Read the full story here!
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Loreta, OLS Community Manager – Croatian