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13th Century China
The first ever recorded case of using forensic science. A local magistrate told all field workers to lay down their tools, one attracted maggots. when investigated it was discovered the sickle had residue form a human eye. The murderer confessed. -
Mathieu Orfila
Considered the "Father of Toxicology" for his work with forensic medicine and the case of Marie Lafarge, where a women was charged with murder of her husband with arsenic. Orfila was summoned to Paris to investigate the body of Charles Lafarge, where he found traces of arsenic that was not from the surrounding soil -
William Herschel
William Herschel joined the East India Company. In 1858 he made a contract with a man named Mr. Konai, and in order to prevent him from denying his signature, Herschel had Mr. Konai put a hand print on the document. -
Alphonse Bertillon
The Father of criminal Identification, he developed anthropometry, which used body measurements to distinguish individuals. Bertillon believed that repeat offenders could be identified through physical characteristics. In 1881 Bertillon developed techniques and instruments to measure and individuals feature that would not change. -
Henry Faulds
Henry Faulds used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. He studied fingerprints made on ancient pottery. He then went on to study modern fingerprints from those who made them. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A British writer that invented the character Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was an amazing story teller and would often make up stories to tell to other students when he was studying medicine -
Francis Galton
An experienced author who wrote 9 books with some being over 200 pages long. They dealt with fingerprints for personal identification, the correlation of calculus, twins, blood, and transfusions, to name a few. -
Hans Gross
Noticing the faults in the justice system, Gross focused on expanding deep investigation, professional ethics, and the scientific method. -
Karl Landsteiner
His studies led him to discover the three different blood groups. Landsteiner received a Nobel Peach Prize for his accomplishment -
Edmond Locard
Locard is the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the university of Lyons, France after making a workable crime lab using Hans Gross's principles -
Albert S. Osborn
Osborn published the book Questioned Documents and developed the fundamental principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
Lattes developed a method at determining dried blood
