How Peter Stout Turned Around Houston's Crime Lab

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How Peter Stout Turned Around Houston's Crime Lab
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Once dubbed the worst in the country, HoustonForensic Science Center is setting a new standard for criminal investigations. Police HoustonTX

Stout’s buoyant presence cuts a sharp contrast to his grisly work as head of the Houston Forensic Science Center. Defying the typical laboratory white, Stout is dressed in hues of blue with bright teal armadillo socks peeking out of brown Oxfords.

“What goes on in these labs is that little piece of objective information that means the difference of whether a family gets to start healing or not.” The suspected murderer, Kenneth Felder, was shot later that day by his estranged wife. Police found Stout’s grandfather’s wallet in Felder’s back pocket and the suspected murder weapon—a .22 rifle with a broken stock—in the cab of his truck. Officers also found latent prints inside the truck they tied towho knew Felder. Those prints, coupled with Stout’s grandmother’s eyewitness account, led to the woman’s conviction.

Back in the 1970s, the FBI established the basis for its more reliable computerized fingerprint database, called the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, but it wouldn’t be widely searchable until the 1990s. DNA profiling wouldn’t be used to solve a crime until 1986, and when it was, the world cried out for more accountability for forensics, which became more powerful as technologies advanced.

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