Those photos of Will West and William West are incredible.
"... even though today we know that mummies were in fact committing extremely low numbers of crimes in South America at the time." This made me laugh.
Seriously, though, what a sad ending for Grumpy Alphonse, made all the sadder by his obstinate nature. Thank you for sharing his story. It really is incredible.
Not at all, Meredith - thank *you* for reading and taking the trouble to reply! I'm glad you enjoyed Alphonse's story, which I think deserves to be more widely known.
Marvelous, we started looking into Vucetich a few weeks ago. We read about him in a book called, Civilizing Argentina. The book makes references to his developments in fingerprinting, taking, cataloging, studying, and so forth. An interesting point that we need to further explore is that the author claimed that Vucetich started to think that there were patterns shared among criminals and hence that it may be possible to predict who may in the future engage in crime.
Thanks for your comment! I know very little about Vucetich, beyond what I have written here, but what you have discovered sounds very interesting. What kind of patterns was he looking for? Were they physical stigmata or was he more interested in sociological variables?
Those photos of Will West and William West are incredible.
"... even though today we know that mummies were in fact committing extremely low numbers of crimes in South America at the time." This made me laugh.
Seriously, though, what a sad ending for Grumpy Alphonse, made all the sadder by his obstinate nature. Thank you for sharing his story. It really is incredible.
Not at all, Meredith - thank *you* for reading and taking the trouble to reply! I'm glad you enjoyed Alphonse's story, which I think deserves to be more widely known.
Marvelous, we started looking into Vucetich a few weeks ago. We read about him in a book called, Civilizing Argentina. The book makes references to his developments in fingerprinting, taking, cataloging, studying, and so forth. An interesting point that we need to further explore is that the author claimed that Vucetich started to think that there were patterns shared among criminals and hence that it may be possible to predict who may in the future engage in crime.
Thanks for your comment! I know very little about Vucetich, beyond what I have written here, but what you have discovered sounds very interesting. What kind of patterns was he looking for? Were they physical stigmata or was he more interested in sociological variables?