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History of Forensics
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Matieu Orfila
Orfila was working in crime when a large majority of killings were posions. His large discovery was how to better find arsenic. This was called the first triste. Fun fact his wife later killed him with arsenic. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon was a french police officer that eventually applied anthropology to law enforcement. Later in his law enforcement career he invented the mug shot. Both of which have large impact in todays forensic world. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle was a british author who created the popular book series "Sherlock Holmes". In the books Holmes used many different ways to crack the case. many of which were very new in the time they were written in. -
Francis Galton
Francis Galton was the creator of the fingerprint in the identification. He was able to college over 8,000 sets of sample prints. He ran tests in his own Anthropological labs. -
Albert Osborn
He was the first president of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiner. He became great at documented evidence and wrote books called Questioned Documents, The problem of proof, The Mind of the Juror. -
Leone Lattes
Leone Lattes became famous in forensics for his ability to test dried blood samples for their type. This opened up cases for much longer then their time frames before, and gave a lot more information. In general he specialized in blood and different types -
Calvin Goddard
Calvin was a pioneer in forensic ballistics. His largest case solved was in 1929 where he concluded the St. Valentines Day Massacre was a mob hit. He also invented the comparing microscope. -
Edmond Locard
Edmond was a french criminalogist that came up with the basic principle that every contact leaves a trace. He eventually doctored the nickname the sherlock holmes of france. His findings were known as Locard's exchange principle.
