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13th Century China
First case ever recorded all knives of the village collected flies were attracked to murder weapon person confessed. -
Mathieu Orfila
father of toxicology first person to write a paper on how poisons work and their effect on animals -
William Herschel
Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse bertillon
Father of criminal identification. Develpoed anthropomety which uses body mesurments to identify people -
henry faulds
Uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Authur Conan Doyle
Published his first Sherlock Holmes story considered the first CSI featured in four novels and 56 short stories popularized scientific crime detection methods -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints conducted the first definitive study of finger prints and their classification gave proof of uniqueness -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientfic principals to the feild of crimal investigation Published Criminal Investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
Discorverd the ABO blood groups later recived Nobel Prize -
Albert S. Osborn
Published Questioned Documents developed a fundemental principals of document examination -
Edmond Locard
incorporated Gross principals within a workable crime lab became the founder and director of the Insitute of Criminallists at the university of Lyons France -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmar
Established the First Crime Lab in the United States located in Los Angeles -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparision microscope first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon
