CSI St. Petersburg Timeline

  • 750

    The lie detector

    The first lie detector was invented in 750
  • 1000

    Fingerprinting

    Fingerprinting came out in 1000 Bc when places like Babylon used it like we use signature
  • 1235

    The discovery of finding murder weapons'

  • 1248

    Medicine murder

    Medicine was used to murder someone
  • 1302

    First medical autopsy

  • Microscopes

    The first microscope to be used in anatomy
  • fingerprint patterns

    A professor at the University of Bologna, in Italy, named Macello Malpighi noticed that fingerprints had common patters. Loops, whorls, arches, and ridges seemed to make up most fingerprints.
  • bullet comparison

    The first time bullets were noticed to be different.
  • Matching

    No two finger prints are the same
  • body heat

    Using body temperature to determine time of death.
  • Indentification

    Finger prints were discovered to find someone
  • Crime

    Using a bloody fingerprint left on a doorframe, police in Argentina were able to identify a murderer. During the same year, certain police groups started keeping fingerprint files.
  • Paris

    Paris police began keeping fingerprints of criminals on file. After a murder was committed, police found a fingerprint at the scene and compared it against their files; they were able to identify the killer.
  • American Prints

    The New York Police Department, and others across the state, began using fingerprints as a way to identify people. Over the next few years, the practice slowly spread westward.
  • American FBI

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation took over the files of fingerprints in America. By 1971 they had over 200 million fingerprints on file.
  • FBI Labs

    FBI created a crime lab to do autopsy in and solve crimes.
  • DNA fingerprint profiling

    In 1984 Dr. Alec Jeffery discovered the genetics through fingerprinting in Great Britain.