Brain Fingerprinting Services

Brain Fingerprinting Testing

Brain Fingerprinting Testing is a major, new, highly accurate, forensic science investigative technology to assist authorities to:

Identify criminal suspects scientifically and accurately.
Identify innocent suspects scientifically and accurately. Note: Innocent suspects can then be excluded and removed from the criminal justice system at pre-trial, and also excluded and removed from non-criminal situations. Using Brain Fingerprinting Technology, innocent suspects avoid false accusations, wrongful trials, wrongful convictions, and significant suffering.
Support judges and juries in determining innocence or guilt.
Exonerate people who have been erroneously incarcerated including those awaiting execution on death row. And
Provide significant other services that contribute to the national defense and to the defense of our allies.

Brain Fingerprinting Technology is a key strategy for implementation in criminal justice systems, police, military, and private sector industrial organizations at the international, federal, state, and local levels.

The technology is applicable to most cases involving common crimes, and crimes of terrorism, counter-intelligence, political / military espionage, and industrial espionage. This Technology can be used independently or it can be used in concert with the results of DNA, Fingerprint tests, and other reliable forensic investigative techniques.

Executive Summary:

Brain Fingerprinting^ā

A Scientific Solution to a Timeless Problem

How do we decide who should be arrested for a particular crime? Who should go to prison? Who is innocent and should be freed? Or more recently, who can safely be granted a visa to enter the United States? In all of these situations, the task is to determine the truth. In the past, no accurate, scientific technology has been available to accomplish this goal. Brain Fingerprinting^® solves this central problem in crime and terrorism.

What is Brain Fingerprinting^ā

Brain Fingerprinting^ā is a new, scientific technology to detect whether specific information is stored in a person’s brain. This technology can provide evidence to identify criminals and terrorists accurately and scientifically. Brain Fingerprinting^ā measures brain-wave responses to crime-relevant words or pictures presented on a computer screen. To date, Brain Fingerprinting^ā has not resulted in any incorrect determinations. It has provided highly accurate results in over 170 tests, including tests on FBI agents and tests sponsored by the CIA and the US Navy. Brain Fingerprinting^ā has been ruled admissible in court.

Proven Accuracy in US Government Tests; Scientific Publications

Brain Fingerprinting^ā detected which people in a group were FBI agents, by measuring brain responses to words and phrases that only FBI agents would recognize. This research was conducted by Dr. Lawrence Farwell, the inventor of Brain Fingerprinting^ā, in collaboration with Dr. Drew Richardson, then a scientist at the FBI Laboratory. Dr. Richardson is now VP for Forensic Operations of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc. (BFL). Dr. Farwell replicated this research using a larger group at the US Navy. In research funded by the CIA, Dr. Farwell also used Brain Fingerprinting^ā to test whether or not persons had knowledge of crimes or espionage acts. He has published papers on Brain Fingerprinting^ā in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, including a publication co-authored with FBI scientist Sharon Smith in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. In these studies, Brain Fingerprinting^ā provided the correct determination for every individual tested.

Widespread News Media Coverage

Brain Fingerprinting^ā has been featured in major print and broadcast media throughout the world. These include CBS 60 Minutes, Fox News, CBS 48 Hours, ABC World News, CBS Evening News, CNN Headline News, and the Discovery Channel, TIME, U.S. News and World Report, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. TIME Magazine named Dr. Farwell to the TIME 100: The Next Wave, the 100 Innovators who may be “the Picassos and Einsteins of the next century.”

Ruled Admissible in Court; Exonerates Man Convicted of Murder

Brain Fingerprinting^ā was ruled admissible in court in the case of Terry Harrington, who was convicted of murder in 1978 in Iowa and has been serving a life sentence since then. Brain Fingerprinting^ā proved that the record stored in Harrington’s brain did not match the crime scene, and did match his alibi. Confronted with the Brain Fingerprinting^ā evidence, the only alleged witness to the crime recanted his testimony identifying Harrington as the perpetrator. In a sworn statement, admitted as evidence, Harrington’s accuser confessed that he had lied in the original trial to avoid being prosecuted for the crime himself. In a post-conviction hearing, the judge ruled Brain Fingerprinting^ā admissible, but stopped short of granting a new trial. Harrington has appealed for a new trial based on Brain Fingerprinting^ā and other evidence.

Brain Fingerprinting^ā Catches a Serial Killer

Macon County, Missouri Sheriff Robert Dawson engaged Dr. Farwell to conduct a Brain Fingerprinting^ā test on murder suspect James B. Grinder. The test proved that the record stored in Grinder’s brain matched the scene of the murder of Julie Helton. Faced with a certain conviction and a probable death sentence, Grinder pled guilty in exchange for life without parole. He also confessed to the previously unsolved murders of three other young women.

Counterterrorism Applications

In any crime or terrorist act, the brain of the perpetrator is always there -- planning, executing, and recording the crime. There may or may not be other kinds of evidence. Brain Fingerprinting^ā can identify the perpetrators and planners of terrorist acts by detecting the record stored in the brain. In addition, it could be used to identify trained terrorists. This capability is demonstrated by Brain Fingerprinting’s proven ability to detect specific training, as shown in tests at the FBI and the US Navy. Brain Fingerprinting^ā could detect trained terrorists even before they strike.

Patented Technology; Contrast with Other Technologies

Dr. Farwell has been issued three patents on the technology, and no viable competing technology is known to exist. Both the Brain Fingerprinting^ā test methodology and the MERMER brain response are patented.

Brain Fingerprinting^ā has nothing to do with “lie detection.” Rather, it detects information stored in the brain. “Lie detector” or polygraph machines are notoriously inaccurate and are not admissible in court. Standard fingerprinting and DNA testing technologies are accurate but only apply in one percent of cases.

How Brain Fingerprinting^ā Works

The fundamental difference between the perpetrator of a crime and an innocent person is that the perpetrator, having committed the crime, has the details of the crime stored in his brain, and the innocent suspect does not. This is what Brain Fingerprinting^ā detects scientifically.

Words or pictures relevant to a crime, terrorist act, or terrorist training are presented on a computer screen, in a series with other, irrelevant words or pictures. A suspect’s brain-wave responses to these stimuli are measured non-invasively using a patented headband equipped with EEG sensors. A copyrighted computer program then analyzes the data to determine if the crime-relevant information is stored in the brain. A specific, measurable brain response known as a P300, is emitted by the brain of a perpetrator who has the details of a crime stored in his brain, but not by an innocent suspect lacking this record in his brain. The P300 response has been extensively researched and widely published in leading professional journals for more than 30 years and has gained broad acceptance in the scientific field of psychophysiology.

In his research on the P300 response, Dr. Farwell discovered that the P300 was one aspect of a larger brain-wave response that he named a MERMER (memory and encoding related multifaceted electroencephalographic response). The discovery of the MERMER allows the results gained through the P300 to be much more accurate, in the high ninety percentile range. Since the inclusion of the MERMER in the brain-wave data analysis algorithm, Brain Fingerprinting^ā has made a definite determination in every case. All determinations have been correct.

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Human Rights

In the past, innocent suspects have almost universally been subjected to stressful interrogations, and in some cases have been subjected to false conviction and punishment. Estimates indicate that 5%-10% of the American prison population might have been erroneously convicted and sentenced to long-term incarceration, while others were sentenced to death.

With Farwell Brain Fingerprinting, an innocent suspect can simply observe a computer monitor on which words, phrases, acronyms, or pictures appear. His brain responses will confirm that information relevant to the crime is not stored in his brain. Also, Brain Fingerprinting tests can present information about a suspect’s alibi; if the suspect recognizes the details of his alibi, the judge and jury can use this information to determine innocence or guilt as well. In this way, Farwell Brain Fingerprinting can establish innocence.

Non-invasive, non-stressful,

non-abusive test

Brain Fingerprinting Testing is a great benefit for innocent individuals who are falsely accused. It would be a serious violation of human rights to deny an innocent subject access to this effective, non-invasive, non-stressful, and accurate means of establishing innocence. The rights of a guilty subject are not violated when he voluntarily undergoes such a non-invasive analysis of criminal evidence (unless one considers license to continue to perpetrate crimes, without exposure or punishment, a "right").

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