• SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes.

      Before fingerprinting the police had tried ways to extract confessions out of people, including a documented practice of standing outside a perp’s window in the dark and calling out that they were the ghost of the victim and why did you kill me?