A Fingerprint Identification Story: Bobby Driscoll – Bredemarket
In early 1968, two boys discovered a lifeless physique in New York’s East Village. There was no identification on the person, and nobody within the neighborhood knew him. He was fingerprinted and buried in a mass grave, recognized by the NYPD almost two years later.
Within the Sixties, fingerprint identification of deceased individuals—a laborious course of in these days—typically occurred as a result of the deceased had a felony document.
His first arrest was in 1956, however he was not convicted of any crime till 1961.
“On Could 1, 1961, he was arrested for making an attempt to money a test that had been stolen from a liquor retailer the earlier January, and on the identical time was additionally charged with driving below the affect of medication. He pled responsible to each prices and was sentenced to 6 months of therapy for drug habit on the California Institute for Males at Chino.”
Driscoll reportedly cleaned up (his drug of selection was heroin), went east to New York Metropolis, and even achieved some fame.
“[H]e purportedly settled into Andy Warhol’s Greenwich Village artwork neighborhood generally known as “The Manufacturing unit.” Throughout this time, he additionally participated in an underground movie entitled Filth, directed by avant-garde filmmaker Piero Heliczer.”
However this was not Driscoll’s first movie. He had been in a couple of movies earlier in life.
Right here he’s (within the higher proper nook) taking part in Johnny within the Disney film Music of the South.
And he offered the voice for the lead character within the later Disney film Peter Pan.
Sure, Bobby Driscoll was a baby star for Disney and different studios earlier than showing in Filth.
However proper after Driscoll’s voice grew to become well-known in Peter Pan, Disney declined to resume his contract. The explanation? Zits…and the truth that he wasn’t a cute child any extra.
This led to his tailspin, which finally led to his fingerprinting.
And his optimistic identification after his dying.
