CSI

By Ethanrowan
  • 300

    First forensics

    Fingerprints are used on clay tablets for business transaction in ancient Babylon.
  • 750

    First lie detector

  • 1238

    Learning of murder weapons

    A murderer killed someone using a sickle. All the people in the village who owned a sickle were made to bring them out and lay them in the sun. Eventually flies gathered on one particular sickle, and this showed that it was the murder weapon.
  • 1302

    First Autopsy

    Bartolomeo da Varignana performed one of the first medicolegal autopsies in the case of a suspected murder of a nobleman.
  • 1447

    Identify Remains

    The missing teeth of the Duke of Burgundy are used to identify remains.

  • Bullet comparison

    Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard first uses bullet comparison to catch a murderer. The comparison was based in a visible flaw in the bullet, traced back to a mold.

  • Using fingerprints to catch criminals.

  • Polygraph that was portable

    John Larson and Leonard Keeler designed the portable polygraph.

  • DNA is used to catch criminals