Mapleton became important in the history of forensics and policing as being the subject of the first police composite picture to appear on a wanted poster and in a newspaper. (29 November 1881)
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Thursday 15th of July 1971 (-) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Petra Schelm is shot dead by the police after escaping from a road-block. Schelm's companion Werner Hoppe was arrested minutes later. Schelm was the first member of the Rote Armee Fraktion to be killed by the German police.