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Detecting Arsenic in Corpses
Carl W. Scheele, a Swedish chemist, devised the test for detecting arsenic in corpses. -
Ink
chemical test invented in Germany, designed to test a particular type of ink used on documents -
Time of Death
Dr John Davy investigated into the measuring of body temperature to ascertain times of death -
Bullet Matching
In 1835 Scotland Yard traced a physical flaw in a bullet back to the mold and discovered the person who had bought it -
The Bertillon System
Alphonse Bertillon, a French anthropologist, introduced the
Bertillon System. It was a system of identifying people by their physical appearance. -
Fingerprints
The world’s first fingerprint bureau was established in Argentina after a well-publicized case where a bloody fingerprint identified a killer. -
First Crime Lab
Los Angeles PD Crime Lab is the first in the US -
FBI
FBI National Laboratory opened under Director J. Edgar
Hoover. -
BATF
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(ATF) Laboratories analyze alcoholic beverages, weapons, and
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Shoe Prints
‘Footwear Intelligence Technology’ (FIT) contains thousands of footwear prints and impressions which can be used to quickly identify the footwear that caused the mark -
Forensic Linguistics
forensic linguistics, involving the examination of written and spoken language may develop further -
Blood Splatter
by measuring and logging down a large number of blood drops on say, a wall of a room, the software can predict where in the room the blood