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First case ever solved using forensic science
In 13th century China, authorities used forensic entomology to find out the assailant in a murder. They lined up all the workers' sickles and one attracted many flies. That was the murder weapon. -
Mathieu Orfila: Father of Toxicology
Mathieu Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation. -
William Herschel Uses Fingerprints
William Herschel was a British man who used thumbprints as identification on contracts in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon: Father of Criminal Indentification
Alphonse Bertillon used anthropological techniques to use body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
Faulds developed a technique to determine the innocent vs. the guilty based on fingerprints. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In 1887, Doyle published the first Sherlock Holmes story. It was considered the first CSI in 4 novels and 56 short stories. -
Francis Galton
Galton conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints. He determined that all fingerprints were unique. -
Hans Gross
Gross wrote the first paper on the principles of criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl discovered the ABO blood group and received a Nobel prize. -
Edmond Locard
Locard incorporated investigation principles into a workable crime lab. He also founded the institute of criminalistics at the University of Lyons. -
Albert S. Osborn
Osborn developed the fundamental principles of examining documents. -
Leone Lattes
Lattes discovered the method of determining blood type from dried stains. -
August Vollmer
Vollmer established the first crime lab in the US. The crime lab is in Los Angeles, California. -
Calvin Goddard
Goddard was the first person to develop the comparison microscope, used to compare bullets to see if they wer fired from the same weapon.
