10/24/2017

Two State Agencies Use NGI to Help Crack Cases, Receive Biometric Identification Awards

FBI

The FBI recently awarded two employees of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) the Biometric Identification Award for their use of the FBI’s NGI System to help capture a murder suspect. Biometric Services Section Chief William G. McKinsey of the FBI’s CJIS Division presented the award to Technical Manager Meghan Jones and Latent Print Examiner Stacy Hirschman, both with the Latent Evidence Unit of the Oklahoma SBI Laboratory in Edmond.

The SBI’s resubmission of latent fingerprints from a cold case to the FBI proved successful when the new search returned a viable suspect in 2014. Three years later, the suspect was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for the intentional homicide of a child 20 years ago.

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