Fingerprinting

Dr. Farwell and then FBI scientist Dr. Drew Richardson used the Brain Fingerprinting system to detect with 100% accuracy which people in a group were FBI agents and which were not by measuring brain responses to items only an FBI agent would recognize.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

The Brain Fingerprinting test on Harrington showed that the record stored in his brain did not match the crime, and did match his alibi.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

The Harrington case was about as difficult a case as could be envisioned for the Brain Fingerprinting system.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

Brain Fingerprinting testing was also 100% accurate in three studies Dr. Farwell conducted for a US intelligence agency and for the US Navy.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

After obtaining the results of the Brain Fingerprinting test, Dr. Farwell located the only alleged witness to the crime, Kevin Hughes.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

When Dr. Farwell confronted him with the Brain Fingerprinting test results exonerating Harrington, Hughes admitted that he had lied at Harrington's trial.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

In a Brain Fingerprinting test, words, pictures or sounds describing salient features of a crime are presented by a computer, along with other, irrelevant information, that would be equally plausible for an innocent subject.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

The weight of the Brain Fingerprinting test evidence will be evaluated along with other evidence by a higher court in their consideration of Harrington's appeal.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

Dr. Farwell conducted a Brain Fingerprinting test on Terry Harrington, who is serving a life sentence in Iowa for a 1977 murder.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004

Twenty-three years after the crime was committed, through examination of court documents, police reports, witness interviews, crime-scene photos and an investigation of crime scene itself, Dr. Farwell was able to structure a Brain Fingerprinting test that tested Harrington's brain for evidence of salient features of the crime, features that he claimed not to know because he was not there.

Brain Fingerprinting - Ruled Admissable 2004