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1280
13th century China
The first case ever recorded that used forensic evidence. After a knife was used to stab somebody, authorities collected all the knives in the village and waited for flies to be attracted to the blood residue on the knife, which lead to the suspect confessing. -
Mathieu Orfila
The chemist who published the first scientific paper on detection of poisons and the effects they had on humans, also knows as the "Father of Forensic Toxicology" -
William Herschel
The first to use thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon
He is the "Father of Criminal Identification". he developed the science that uses body measurements to identify people, known as anthropometry. -
Henry Faulds
He used fingerprints to remove an innocent man from a burglary suspect list. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He published the first detective story, popularly know as Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was the first "CSI" featured in the 4 novels, 56 short stories, with his popular scientific crime-detection methods. -
Francis Galton
He conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification and showed proof of how each fingerprint is unique and there is no exact copy. -
Hans Gross
He wrote the first paper that explained the application of to the field of criminal investigations. -
Karl Landsteiner
He discovered ABO blood groups. -
Edmond Locard
He incorporated Hans Gross' principles within a workable crime lab -
Albert S. Osborn
He developed the fundamental principle document examination and published Question Documents. -
Leone Lattes
He developed a method for blood-typing from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
He established the first crime lab in the United States. -
Calvin Goddard
He created a comparison microscope and used it to see if bullets were fired from the same weapon.
