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First Case Ever Recorded in Forensics
The first ever recorded case took place in China when someone was stabbed with a knife. All the knives in the village were collected and flies were used to attract to the leftover blood on the knives. This tactic lead to confessions being made. -
Mathieu Orfila
Orfila is considered the founding father of toxicology because he published the first paper on the detection of poisons and the impact that it left on animals. -
William Herschel
Herschel used thumbprints to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon used body measurements to help distinguish individuals from each other. -
Henry Faulds
Faulds used fingerprints to help narrow down suspects and eliminate innocent suspects. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes when he published his novels and stories. -
Francis Galton
Galton showed how everyone's fingerprints are different and published the book "Fingerprints". -
Hans Gross
Gross published the first scientific methods needed in criminal investigations. -
Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner discovered the types of bloods. -
Edmond Locard
Locard was the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons. -
Albert S. Osborn
Osborn published "Questioned Documents" which helped present the principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
Lattes was able to use a specific method to determine blood type by dry blood. -
August Vollmer
Vollmer created the first crime lab in the U.S. in LA. -
Calvin Goddard
Goddard was the first to compare bullets found in the body to determine if the shot was fired from the same weapon.
