Vucetich was born in
Hvar,
Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of the
Austrian Empire, and immigrated to
Argentina in 1884. In 1891, he began the first filing of fingerprints based on ideas of
Francis Galton, which he expanded significantly. He became the director of the Center for Dactyloscopy in
Buenos Aires. At the time, he included the
Bertillon system alongside the fingerprint files. The first positive identification of a criminal was made in 1892, when
Francisca Rojas killed her two children, then cut her own throat in an attempt to put the blame on an outside attacker. A bloody print identified her as the killer. Vucetich died in
Dolores, Buenos Aires. == Legacy ==