Mr. Schiff: Here's the picture: someone is arrested for allegedly committing a crime. They are fingerprinted by the police. Standard procedure has the image of the prints sent through computers to the FBI's fingerprint center in West Virginia for comparison in the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System computer...

Ms. DelGreco: "IAFIS is a national fingerprint database that combines criminal histories with mug shots, scars, and tattoo photos and aliases maintained by the FBI."

Mr. Schiff: That's Kim DelGreco who supervises the FBI's Identification and Investigative Services Section...

Ms. DelGreco: "It helps us match up evidence with identities."

Mr. Schiff: In early 2004, a man was arrested in New England. DelGreco says his prints were run through the FBI's IAFIS system...

Ms. DelGreco: "The person was arrested in Connecticut on a drug related charge and was identified by fingerprints as wanted since October, 2003, for homicide in Florida."

Mr. Schiff: There are more than 48,000,000 fingerprints on computer at the FBI. I'm Neal Schiff and that's the FBI's Closed Case of the Week."

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