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There was a murder in 1247, and a person was killed with a sickle. They weren't sure who did it, so they had all the farmers lay their sickles out and soon enough one of the sickles was swarmed by flies becasue of the microscopic blood and tissue on the sickle that the flies sensed.
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He wanted to make chemical analysis the norm of forensics, so he studied the decomposition of bodies, and others. He is also given credit to being the first to use a microscope to examine blood and semen stains,
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He was the first person to use fingerprints as a practical way fo documenting people. He realized that fingerprints were permanent and unchanging. In India, he used fingerprints as a way of documenting workers.
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He is called the father of Criminal Identification. He used body measurements like height, weight, and facial features to find criminals. Also was the first to use a mug shot.
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He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent suspect in a burglary
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Published Finger Prints. Conducted first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification.
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Publsihed first Sherlock Holmes story. Considered first CSI agent. Popularized crime-detection methods.
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Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published Criminal Investigation.
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Discovered the ABO blood groups, later received Nobel Prize.
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Incorporated Gross' principle within a workable crime lab; became founder and director of the institute of criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France,
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Published Questioned Documents. Developed the fundamental principles of document examination.
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Developed a method for determining blood types with dried blood.
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Established the first crime lab in the United States in LA.
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Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see of fired from the same weapon.
