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In 400, a king appointed several medical experts to examining bodies, making them the only ones that were allowed to say that someone died. This meant that there were less people being burried alive, and more people veing accused of murder.
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In a market, a theif was identified off of his finger prints. They identified him by just examining his finger prints, which might not have been super reliable, but they first had the idea to use finger prints then.
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The first book on the science of foresnsics was published in China, but it was spread quickly. It was a widly though of thing, but this was the first that was avalible for others to read and learn from.
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This was the first time that people started to think that they should report bodies and people that died.
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This was the first time that physical evidence was used against someone to identify them as a murderer.
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This was the first time that people started to investigate bodies for poison to see if that was their cause of death.
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More clothing was used to identify murderers, specifically shoes.
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Chemistry was starting to be used to fins our what the cause of death was and even on occasion who the murder was.
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Photography was now beiong used to identify how, when, where, and who in murders.
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Doctors and scientists find out that finger prints are all different, and that they are great if you can find them in crime scenes. These will now be used more often.
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Sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths are now all identifyable by cornors. Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle writes the first Sherlock novel.
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Now finger prints are in a system, and if one is found at the crime scene, they are able to match it to its owner.
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Countries all over the world have started to pick up on the finger print using, and the scanning system, and is a primary thing they look for in investigations.
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Hair is now used to identify who was at the scene of the crime. DNA is starting to be a big thing in crime scenes.
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There are many different kinds of guns now, which are being used to better identify murderers. What bullet comes from what gun, what gun can take what bullets, and who has what gun are all common questions.
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The first crime lab in the state is set up so that people that specialize in this division can have their own space, tools, facilities, and utilites.
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The first polygraph test is made as an actual model for a police unit, but will soon catch on in other places as commonly used tool.
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The FBI gets their own crime lab and starts to take on more cases because of how much it has opened up.
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Voice and audio recordings are now able to be used against someone in a case, and start to be used more commonly.
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FBI create a national crime center, where you can find or look up wanted people, evidence, murders, deaths, disappearences, and even more.
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Finger prints continue to advance as things start to require a finger print to unlock.
