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Facial Composite Sketch Cracks Serial Shooter Case
For more than a year, Phoenix police were stumped by a string of killings in which a shooter stalked victims after dark and gunned them down as they stood outside their homes or sat in their cars. Nine people were killed in all in a case dubbed the Serial Street Shooter.A suspect has been apprehended ...
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New App Release adds Functionality
Identi-Kit 7 HD Has a New Release! Important update information… If you have Identi-Kit 7 HD installed on a PC that is shared with other users, this release makes it simple and easy to allow others to access the app. With this new release, the license will automatically allow any user of the computer to ...
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Yaba Daba Do: A Composite Sketch Fail
As is the case in most of England and the UK, police use a software composite tool called “e-fit.” We recently stumbled on this story about a composite created by the Kent Police that had citizens scratching there heads. Here’s the link to the story. If you don’t have time to read the article, here ...
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AMBER Alert forensics training with Identi-Kit 7 HD Composite Sketch App
Identi-Kit 7 HD was once again featured at the AMBER Alert Forensics training seminar held in September in Waterloo, IA. Sixty-nine public safety personnel attended the two day session conducted by Fox Valley Technical College. Since 2007, Fox Valley Technical College has been delivering AMBER Alert related training seminars to public safety agencies across the ...
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Bethlehem PA early adopters of new Identi-Kit 7 HD
The Bethlehem PA police department was one of the very first users of the latest release of Identi-Kit. Their investigators contacted us in February, just as our team was going through final tests of the latest app, v7 HD. Bethlehem PD agreed to take on the new version, despite not having been officially released. As ...
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Sketch Leads to Arrest in Sexual Assault Case
A recent case in Tempe, AZ demonstrates the effectiveness of facial composite sketches. Tempe PD began showing a composite sketch to local residents late Friday, Feb. 6th. Less than seventy-two hours later, a suspect was identified and taken into custody on charges of sexual assault. Here’s the AZ Central story.
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Identi-Kit facial composite sketch tool in the National Law Enforcement Museum
Building permits for the National Law Enforcement Museum were approved in November 2014. The museum will be located across from the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington D.C. The 55,000-square-foot, mostly underground institution will be a world-class experiential museum with high-tech interactive exhibitions. The Museum will include a vast collection of law enforcement artifacts and dedicated ...
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Welcome to the new Identi-Kit website!
It took a while, but the new website is up and operational. It went live last weekend. As expected, we found a couple of glitches that needed attention but overall we like it and hope you do too. One nice aspect of the new site is that all six of our domain names will take ...