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Only if there are prior fingerprints to compare them too, which certainly isn't a given.

• kmoser 2y ago
  Or footprints since some hospitals take footprints of newborns, but it's neither a given that they did, or that they're readily available, or that you can identify which hospital to ask, or even that the person you want to identify still has both feet.
  • krisoft 2y ago
    Can you use a newborn’s footprint to identify them even as an older adult? If so that truly surprises me.
    • gs17 2y ago
      I wouldn't be surprised if it can be used to say "these are definitely different people", which would be sufficient in this case.
• excalibur 2y ago
  It sounded like Kierans was arrested as a teenager, if so they would have fingerprinted him then.
  • neaden 2y ago
    They didn't know who Kierans was though did they? Woods knew he was someone else, but no one else knew who he was until he confessed.