Forensic History

By SillyNerd
  • 1200

    13th Century Chine

    The first forensic case ever known. A person was stabbed and they collected the knives and the flies only went to one, making the person reveal

  • Mathieu Orfila

    Father of Forensic Toxicology

  • William Herschel

    Used thumbprints to document workers in India

  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Father of Criminal Identification

  • Henry Fauld

    Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Published Sherlock Holmes, the first 'CSI'

  • Francis Galton

    Published Finger Prints, proved that fingerprints are unique to every person

  • Hans Gross

    Published Criminal Inverstigation

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Discovered the ABO blood groups

  • Edmond Locard

    Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab

  • Albert S. Osborn

    Published Questioned Documents

  • Leone Lattes

    Devolped a method for determining blood type from dried blood

  • August Vollmer

    First Crime Lab in Los Angeles

  • Calvin Goddard

    A comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon