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This was the beginning of forensics -
T'zu's The Washing Away of Wrongs (Hsi yüan chi lu), printed in 1247, is the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world. -
In 1784, in Lancaster, England, John Toms was tried and convicted for murdering Edward Culshaw with a pistol. When the dead body of Culshaw was examined, a pistol wad (crushed paper used to secure powder and balls in the muzzle) found in his head wound matched perfectly with a torn newspaper found in Toms' pocket. -
James Marsh used chemical processes to determine arsenic.The Marsh test is a highly sensitive method in the detection of arsenic, especially useful in the field of forensic toxicology when arsenic was used as a poison. It was developed by the chemist James Marsh and first published in 1836 -
This may explain why the Gross's7 Elements of Pathological Anatomy, first published in 1839, has been considered by some as the first textbook of pathology in America. -
Henry Faulds, William James Herschel and Galton. This was a big break through -
Influenced by criminal anthropology, his first contribution was the design and implementation of novel police identification methods at the Paris Prefecture de Police. -
1854 First uses of photos in identification (1854-59 ) San Francisco uses photography for criminal identification, the first city in the US to do so. -
corner's act established that corners were to determine the causes of sudden, violent and unnatural deaths. Arthur Conan Doyle also published the first Sherlock Holmes story -
Juan Vucetic use fingerprints as evidence in a murder investigation which he termed dactyloscopy. -
In 1892 Juan Vucetich, an Argentine chief police officer, created the first method of recording the fingerprints of individuals on file. In that same year, Francisca Rojas was found in a house with neck injuries, whilst her two sons were found dead with their throats cut. -
human blood grouping, ABO, discovered by Karl Landsteiner. -
This helped find out who commited the crime. -
first school of forensic science founded by Radolphe Archibald Reiss in Switzerland. -
Victor Balthazard and Marcel Lambert publish first study of hair -
Victor Balthazard used tools to make gun barrels never the same -
prototype polygraph invented by John Larson -
First police crime lab established in Los Angeles. -
FBI established its own crime laboratory and a chair of legal medicine at Harvard was established. -
Faster DNA IDs which took 6 to 8 weeks to 1 to 2 days. -
a sound spectrograph discovered to be able to record voices. -
FBI established the National Crime Information Center (computerized national filing system) -
technology developed at Aerospace Corporation in the US to detect gunshot residue. -
Automated fingerprint systems in Canada addresses the evidential impact of fingerprints, the configuration and operations of the current system, its deficiencies, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) future plans for computerization. -
DNA fingerprinting techniques by Sir Alec Jeffreys -
National Academy of Sciences announces DNA evidence is reliable -
Tommy Lee Andrews convicted of a series of sexual assaults using DNA profiling -
LLP announce a partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice to review approximately 3,000 cases in which microscopic hair analysis conducted by the FBI was used to inculpate the defendants. -
FBI establishes the integrated automated fingerprint identification system which took two weeks to two hours. -
A way for scientists to visualize fingerprints even after the print has been removed is developed, relating to how fingerprints can corrode metal surfaces. -
Britain's Forensic science service develops online footwear coding and detection systems
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Michigan State University develops software that automatically matches hand drawn facial sketches to mugshots. -
Japanese researchers develop a dental x-ray matching system. -
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the establishment of a National Commission on Forensic Science as part of a new initiative to strengthen and enhance the practice of forensic science. -
When forensic chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts are inevitably released into the laboratory environment, which can cause detectable background levels of drugs -
Researchers have developed a new way of detecting homemade explosives which will help forensic scientists trace where it came from -
Blood spatters are hydrodynamic signatures of violent crimes, often revealing when an event occurred and where the perpetrator and victim were located, -
Science stinks. So thought Megan Harries as she measured drops of putrescine and cadaverine -- the chemicals that give decomposing corpses their distinctive, terrible odor -- into glass vials. -
Forensic scientists have discovered a new way of presenting fragile evidence, by reconstructing a 'jigsaw' of human bone fragments using 3D printing. In the first known study of its kind, -
A team of researchers has come up with a new solution to boost the surveillance of designer drug abuse. The team has identified three new urinary biomarkers that could be used to detect consumption