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1300
13th Century China
When a person in china was stabbed, all of the knives in the village were collected. Flies were attracted to the traces of blood and landed on only one of the knives, causing the suspect to confess. -
Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu bridged the tenuous gap between the science of toxicology and a criminal court of law. -
William Herschel
He used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in india -
Alphonse Bertillion
Father of Criminal identification, he developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
Uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Considered the First CSI -
Francis Galton
published fingerprints, conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints. -
Hans Gross
Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminality. Throughout his life, Hans Gross made significant contributions to the realm of scientific criminology. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood groups, received the noble peace prize -
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 -
Albert S. Osborn
Published questioned documents . Developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
leone Lattes
Developed a technique for finding the blood type of 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
