Question

By the 1900s, what type of evidence was being collected at crime scenes to help positively identify suspects by one particularly unique trait?

Fingerprints
Stolen goods
DNA samples
Photographs

Answer 1

We all each have a unique pattern of fingerprints. In order to identify us, they would use fingerprints.

Answer 2

The correct answer would be - fingerprints.

Explanation:

Fingerprints are unique in every person. Fingerprint patterns are distinct in each and every person so it is easy to identify or match the person on the basis of their fingerprints.

This unique pattern makes it possible to use prints taken from a crime scene to either eliminate a suspect from the suspect list or match suspect to the scene. fingerprints can be collected from different types of surfaces.

Thus, the correct answer is fingerprints.