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Toxicology
Toxicology was invented to identify poison and/or drugs. It can help show the investigator how the victim died and show traces of other things that might help with the investigation. -
Bullet Comparison
Bullet Comparison is still used today by investigators to find the murder weapon. It is very helpful because they can rule out suspects if their guns don't match the weapon. -
Teeth Identification
Two cops in London found a body that was mostly decomposed but they identified his by his false teeth. This was just the start of dental identification -
Mugshots
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Dynamometer
This was a device made to see how much force was used during a break in -
Forensic Psychology
Forensic Psychology was probably used way before 1879 without name but it really started to spread in that year. It is very helpful for people to understand the minds of the murders because it helps them figure out why and that is one of the most important factors to find out who did it. -
Fingerprints
They started fingerprinting criminals so they connects different crimes to people. We still use this today and there are stories of people connecting murders to criminals from a long time after it happened. -
Collecting DNA
Collecting DNA from a crime scene is as easy as swabbing something to get the DNA and then testing it to other DNA samples and seeing if they match.