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44 BCE
Autopsy on Julius Caesar
When an Autopsy is performed they find that only one of the 23 stab wounds was fatal. This is one of the first autopsies performed. -
400
Only medical experts can determine cause of death in crimes.
A law is passed that states that medical experts must be the ones to determine cause of death in crimes. -
600
First use of fingerprints
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Finger prints were proved to be unique.
Henry Faulds and William James Herschel make a a document discussing how fingerprints are different for everyone. They also discuss several different patterns like plain whorl and plain arch. -
Fingerprint can be used to ID someone in a crime/ or for legal documents
Juan Vucetich, was the first to use fingerprints as evidence in a murder investigation. -
Beginning Investigations into blood markers
Human blood grouping is discovered by Karl Landsteiner and is adapted for use on bloodstains by Dieter Max Richter. -
The First Forensic Science School.
The first school of forensic science was started by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss in Switzerland. -
Hair starts being used in forensics and crime solving
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Unique identifiers of firearms/Guns
Victor Balthazard learns that the tools used to make gun barrels never leave the same markings, with this information they learned that the individual gun barrels leave grooves on each bullet fired through it so they can match it up to the gun used to fire said bullet. -
Lie detectors invented.
They were invented by John Augustus Larson. in 1921 -
VR recorders are used as evidence
VC also known as Voice Recorders -
Gun residue detection is started being used.
Technology developed at Aerospace Corporation in the US is used to detect gunshot residue, -
First use of DNA to catch a criminal.
A man was found guilty of multiple sexual assaults on a teenage women, found by using dna testing. -
DNA evidence
NAS announces DNA evidence is now legal to use in all states and countries as it is reliable more then ever. -
Better detection of evidence after being cleaned.
People cleaning up there mess/evidence can be identified more easily now with the new technology.
