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300 BCE
3rd Century China
Yi Yu Ji is one of the earliest evidence of forensics. The Chinese were the firsts to discover finger print variation/identification. -
1000
Quentilian
Quentilian was a roman lawyer used a set of bloody handprints to prove a man was innocent of murdering his mother -
John Toms
A British man convicted of murder by the use of physical matching. He was convicted based on the turn edge of a wad of newspaper in a pistol matching a wad of newspaper in his pocket. -
Mathiew Joseph Bonaventure
Mathiew Joseph Bonaventure was from Spain and helped discover how to develop blood presence tests in a forensic context and is credited as one of the first people to use a microscope to assess blood and semen -
James Marsh
A British Chemist Developed a tool to accurately test for arsenic called the Kipp's Apparatus. -
Schoenbein
The first presumptive test for blood was created by German scientist Christian Friedrich Schoenbein. He use hemoglobin to oxidize hydrogen peroxide, which causes it to foam. -
L.W. Atcherly
Developed a 10 point system for determining a perpetrators Modus Operandi (Method of Operation) used crime scenes to establish a pattern of behavior. He is from the UK. -
Juan Vucetich
An Argentinian police officer pioneered the first use of fingerprint identification in a murder investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered why when blood mixes it clumps. He also discovered people have different blood types and there are 4 different groups. He was born in Austria, but spent the majority of his life in america -
Will West
2 men, one by the name of Will West, and one by the name of William West, were booked into the Leavenworth Prison System. Both of them looked very similar and shared the same Bertillion Measurements. The prison decided that more accurate identification would need to be provided, and as the Bertillion measurement system fell, the use of fingerprint identification rose. -
Joseph A. Faurot
Used fingerprinting to identify a known hotel thief. It was the first high profile finger printing cases in the U.S criminal justice system. He was from New York -
Victor Balthazard
published his own statistical model of fingerprint individuality, he was from France. -
Phillip O' Gravelle
Phillip and his associate Calvin Goddard invented the comparison microscope which was composed of 2 compound light microscopes that sit side by side and allows the viewer to see both specimens at the same time. He's from Oregon -
August Vollmer
He was the first police chief of Berkeley, California. He was a leading figure in criminal justice who established a criminal justice program at the University of California and also supported female officers -
Doyle Vs. the State of Texas
First case to use forensic dentistry and odontology as evidence. -
R.F. Borkenstein
Prolific figure in the field of forensics & traffic safety from Indiana. He's well known for inventing the breathalyzer. -
Sir Alec Jeffreys
Invented the process in which DNA was analyzed. He was from The UK. -
CODIS
CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) is the FBI's program of support for criminal justice databases as well as the software use to run these databases. -
Daubert Ruling
A court case which ruled that expert witnesses must provide scientifically valid reasoning that applies to the facts of the case for their testimony to be admissible in court. -
AFIS-IAFIS
IAFIS (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System) is a tool capable of scrutinizing vast databases and providing potential fingerprint matches in a matter of minutes.