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1247
13th Century China
1) The first case known to use forensic science 2) A villager was stabbed and to find out who committed the crime, they collected all knives from the village and saw that flies were only attracted to one of them, causing the suspect to confess -
Mathieu Orfila
He is considered the Father of Forensic Toxicology because he published the first scientific paper on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals -
William Herschel
used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
1) Known as the father of criminal identification
2) Developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals -
Henry Faulds
uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1) Published his first Sherlock Holmes story
2) Considered the first "CSI", featured in four novels and 56 short stories & popularized scientific crime-detection methods -
Francis Galton
1) published Finger Prints
2) conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification, which gave proof of their uniqueness from one another -
Hans Gross
wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation; published Criminal Investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
discovered the ABO blood groups, later received the Nobel Prize -
Albert S. Osborn
published Questioned Documents & developed the fundamental principles of document examination -
Edmond Locard
incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France -
Leone Lattes
developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmer
established the first crime lab in the United States located in Los Angeles -
Calvin Goddard
developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon
