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Bertillonage
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en bertillonage.
en 2021 (originally published 2017, adapted 2021) David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Younger Readers 110 There was a risk that he might slip away, so before releasing him, Agent Burger made sure that Morrison had gone through a rigorous process known as Bertillonage. Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals.