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1325
13th century China
there was a killing near a rice field and the victim was slashed repeatedly and most common tool use was the sickle so all villagers with a sickle set them down and a horde of flies swarmed on one and the suspect quickly confessed. -
Mathieu Orfila
Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation -
William Herschel
used thumb prints on documents to identify workers in india -
Sir Arthur Conan doyle
Sherlock Holmes Considered the first CSI in 4 novels and 56 short stories popularized scientific crime detection methods. -
Alphonse Bertillon
father of criminal ID Developed anthropy which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals -
Henry Faulds
was a Scottish physician, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting by eliminating an innocent burglary suspect. -
Francis Galton
Published Finger prints Conducted first definitive study on finger prints and their classification and gave proof of their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation Published Criminal investigation. -
Edmund Locard
Incorporated Gross principles within a workable crime lab became the founder and director of the institute of Criminalistics at the university at Lyons,France -
Albert S Osborn
Published questioned documents developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone LAttes
Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Established the First Crime Lab in the United States Located in LA. -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison micro scope first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon.