timeline

By dandoodle
  • 1806 BCE

    poisioning

    German chemist Valentin Ross developed a method of detecting arsenic in a victim's stomach, thus advancing the investigation of poison deaths.
  • 600 BCE

    Use of fingerprints

    Fingerprints first used to determine identity. Arabic merchants would take a debtor's fingerprint and attach it to the bill.
  • 44 BCE

    death of an emporer

    Julius Caesar is assassinated and a physician performed an autopsy, and determined that of the 23 wounds found on the body, only one was fatal.

  • photos of identification

    San Francisco uses photography for criminal identification, the first city in the US to do so.

  • ID in crime

    Argentinean police officer, is the first to use fingerprints as evidence in a murder investigation. He created a system of fingerprint identification, which he termed dactyloscopy.

  • blood

    Human blood grouping, ABO, discovered by Karl Landsteiner and adapted for use on bloodstains by Dieter Max Richter.

  • advanced technology

    First fingerprint reader installed at the FBI

  • foot detection

    britain's Forensic Science Service develops online footwear coding and detection system. This helps police to identify footwear marks quickly.

  • facial sketching

    Michigan state university develops software that automatically matches hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots stored in databases.

  • dental

    Japanese researchers develop a dental x-ray matching system. This system can automatically match dental x-rays in a database, and makes a positive match in less than 4 seconds.