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Cold-case hit

An AFIS identification event where a crime scene latent previously returned as no identification (NI) matches against a ten-print record enrolled into the database subsequent to the original search. Cold-case hits are a routine output of AFIS systems that retain unsolved marks for periodic re-search.

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