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1201
13th Century China
The first ever case reported using forensic sciences. After a murder, all the knives in the village were gathered up. Flies flew to the one that had previously had blood on it causing the owner to confess to the crime. -
Mathieu Orfila
"Father of Forensic Toxicology" He was the first to publish a scientific paper on the detection of poison and its effects on animals -
William Herschel
Used thumbprints to document workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillion
"Father of Criminal Identification" Developed Anthropology which can use body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Fauld
Used fingerprints to help eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published his first "Sherlock Holmes" novel. Considered the first "CSI" story, it has become very popular. It help popularize scientific crime scene investigation -
Francis Galton
Published "Fingerprints" gave them their classification and proved their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper that described the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood types, and later won the Nobel Prize -
Edmond Locard
Incorporated Gross' principles to a crime lab setting, became the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University in Lyons, France -
Albert S. Osborn
Published "Questioned Documents" Created the fundmentals of document examination in CSI -
Leone Lattes
Created a method of determining blood types from dried blood -
August Vollmer
Founded the first crime lab in the United States, it was located in Los Angeles -
Calvin Goddard
Created the comparison microscope. He first used it to compare bullets to see if they had been fired from the same weapon
