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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.
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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.
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Herschel used thumbprints to identify workers in India.
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Bertillon used body measurements to help distinguish individuals from each other.
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Faulds used fingerprints to help narrow down suspects and eliminate innocent suspects.
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Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes when he published his novels and stories.
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Galton showed how everyone's fingerprints are different and published the book "Fingerprints".
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Gross published the first scientific methods needed in criminal investigations.
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Landsteiner discovered the types of bloods.
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Locard was the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons.
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Osborn published "Questioned Documents" which helped present the principles of document examination.
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Lattes was able to use a specific method to determine blood type by dry blood.
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Vollmer created the first crime lab in the U.S. in LA.
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Goddard was the first to compare bullets found in the body to determine if the shot was fired from the same weapon.
