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1248 BCE
Thirteenth Century China
The first case ever recorded using forensics science, printed in 1247, is the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world. -
Mathieu Orfila
He is considered the father of criminal identification because in 1840, Marie Lafarge was tried for the murder of her husband using arsenic and the marsh test was wrong and there was arsenic in the body. -
William Herschel
Herschel experimented with fingerprints and overtime realized that a person's fingerprints never change. He explained and they are now used for legal documents. -
Alphonse Bertillon
A police officer, created an identification system based off of measurements. -
Henry Faulds
Helped the fingerprints system develop. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Known for his detective fiction, the character Sherlock Holmes, wrote almost 60 short stories about his character. -
Francis Galton
He was the first to study fingerprints in a criminal investigation, and would publish fingerprints. -
Hans Gross
He was first to publish criminal investigation and write a paper about scientific principles. -
Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner discovered type ABO blood. -
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 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 it to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon.
