Black ThenStrange Case Of How Two Non-Related Men With The Same Name And Identical Looks Sparked The Need For Fingerprinting

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Black ThenStrange Case Of How Two Non-Related Men With The Same Name And Identical Looks Sparked The Need For Fingerprinting

They looked identical and even shared the same name, but the two prisoners pictured were actually different people and their remarkable case helped bring in the era of fingerprint identification. The man above was called Will West, the man below William West, and they were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas over […]

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