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300 BCE
First Fingerprints
They used clay and put their fingerprints on it to sign bissnuse deals. -
750
The first lie dector test.
A doctor realized that when someone lies, their heart rate goes up. -
1235
Finding a murder wepon
In a village, a man was killed with a sickle, and to see who it was, they had everyone lay their sickles out in the sun, and the one that had flies come to it was the murder weapon. -
1302
The first autopsy
The first autopsy was done on a noble who was killed. -
1447
They use teeth to identify a body.
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The first microscope
The invention of the first micro scope. -
They use body temp to find time of death
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They start using photographic evidnce
They start taking pictures of criminals, crime scenes, and evidence. -
Henry Faulds publishs a paper saying that finger prints can be used to catch crimals
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A Murder was solved using thumbprint evidence found at the crime scene.
The first time a fingerprint is used as forensic evidence. -
U.S Court rules fingerprints can be used as a reliabl means of idetification.
They can now be used in court from now on. -
Portable Polygraph
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The tape lifing method starts being used to pick up evidence
This method allows for the pick up of evidence such as fingerprints. -
Human DNA Recontion
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DNA is used to catch a crimanal
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DNA is used in the US court for the first time