This document proposes a method for criminal identification using androgenic (body) hair patterns. It discusses how androgenic hair patterns are a stable biometric trait that can be used for identification even in low-resolution images. The proposed method uses Gabor filters to compute orientation fields of hair patterns. Histograms of orientations on a grid are used to describe local orientation patterns. Chi-square distance is used to measure differences between two samples. The method was found to be as effective as other surface recognition techniques such as local binary patterns and histograms of oriented gradients.