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700 BCE
Fingerprints in the Early Years
Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures. -
250 BCE
Lie Detection
Erasistratus was an ancient greek physician who observed that his patient's pulse rate increase when they tell a lie, which was the first lie detection in the early years. -
First Case of Toxicology
German Valentin Ross, a chemist, developed a way to detect arsenic in victims' stomach -
Father of Forensic Toxicology
Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfilia was a Minorcan-born french toxicologist and chemist. He created new techniques in clearing up the accuracy of poisons. -
1816
Clothing was used to find a murder of a girl that had drowned in a pool. -
James Marsh
James Marsh used a chemical process to determine the cause of death in a murder trial. -
Photography
The first city in the United States to use photography for criminal identification was San Francisco from 1854 to 1859 -
Fingerprints
Henry Foulds found that all fingerprints were unique. Francis Galton, a scientist, adapted their finding for court. -
Sherlock Holmes, and the Coroner
Coroners act was established to determine the cause of sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths. -
Juan Vucetich
Juan Vucetich was the first to use and create a system for fingerprinting. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner discovered human graphing and adopted use on blood traits by Detuv Max Richter -
Identification
New York state prison system imprinted fingerprints and identificated them -
First School for Forensic Science
Rodolphe Archibald Reiss founded the first school for forensic science in Switzerland. -
First Forensic Crime Lab
Los Angeles police crime lab was the first of many in the United States. -
DNA
James Watson and Francis Crick published in landmark paper identifying the structure of DNA.