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The beginning
This was one of the first tests that devolved. It was almost one of the first breakthroughs in tests. It was so much easier to just poison someone and not have to shoot them. There would also be less evidence that they killed the person. -
Another Way
They devolved a new test where they had to boil the stomach and they could see if they were poisoned to death and which poison it was.. There was a certain acid inside of the boiling water that if the water turned a certain color, or what part of the stomach rose to the top of the water. -
Alexandre Lacassagne’s Way
He taught a class where he told people how to observe autopsies. If the victim had been strangled by hand, with a rope, or a cord, or the angle of the knife. It was not testing, it was just if you were skilled enough to analyze it. -
Sherlock Holmes
He created a test that was infallible and could test blood old or new. So, they could solve old cases that have not been solved. Even though they were fictional, the police tried to
Replicate the exact test they could use it. -
Firearm Analysis
A women was shot in a move theater in Brooklyn, NY and they need to figure out who killed her. They thought it was a gang but the gun shot wound was a certain gun that gangs did not use. The gun is used by people to shoot as their first gun. They searched every apartment and eventually found a 18 year old with the same model gun. He wanted to shoot the lighbulds but his aim was a little off. -
Blood Pattern
A woman was murdered in her own house. The only suspect was the husband that was only home at the time. He then called his friend to come over and 911. There was no trace of anybody else in the house besides them two. There were droplets of blood on his watch and the victim was beat to death. But the husband claimed to have been downstairs when the killing happened. The first thing he would have done was touched her so the blood would be completely smeared over his watch. -
Criminal Profilers
This was a special unit that were specialists that could solve murder that were the same ways. Almost like serial killers. Looking for pattern that they could have left behind without even knowing. These people were specially trained and prepared for whatever will come at them. -
DNA Teating
The first DNA test was 1987. This is when it all really started. Everything from blood tests, gun analysis and many things that were improved. And this was the first breakthrough in DNA evidence.