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In a Chinese village a person got killed by getting stabbed. They collected every single knife. The blood attracted flies and they landed on the murderer's knife. Forensic Science was used the first time.
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In a Chinese village a person got stabbed. The villager collected every knife. The blood attracted flies, which landed on the murderer's knife. Forensic Science was used for the first time.
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Mathieu Orfila is considered "The father of Toxicology", because he has given the subject its first formal treatment in 1814 in his Traite des poisons. It is the first scientific paper on the detection of poisons and their effect on animals.
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William Herschel used thumbprints on documents the first time to identify workers in India.
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Alphonse Bertillion is considered "The Father of Criminal Identification", because for the first time someone used body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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Henry Fauld uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes Story. He is considered the first CSI, featured in four novels and 56 short stories. He uses popularized scientific crime-detection methods.
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Francis Galton published with "Finger Prints" the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. He proofs their uniqueness.
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Hans Gross wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Additionally he published "Criminal Investigation".
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Karl Landsteiner discovered the AB0 blood groups and received the Nobel prize later.
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He incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime laboratory. He became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.
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He published the "Questioned Documents". Also, he developed the fundamental principles of document examinations.
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He developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood.
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August Vollmer established the first Crime Lab in the United States, located in Los Angeles.
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He developed a comparison microscope which was first used to compare bullets to see if they are fired from the same weapon.
