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First case ever recorded using forensic science. A stabbing occurred so they collected all the knives in the village and flies were attracted to only one of the knives because it had traces of blood on it. This led to a confession.
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He is known as the Father of Forensic Toxicology because he was the first to publish a paper of the detection of poisons and their effects on animals.
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He used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
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He is known as the Father of Criminal Identification because he developed a way to use body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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He is the first CSI novelist. He wrote Sherlock Holmes.
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He published a book on fingerprints and proved that all fingerprints are unique.
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He wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation.
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He discovered the ABO blood groups and later received a Nobel Prize.
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He incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics.
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He developed the fundamental principles of document examination.
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He developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood.
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He established the first crime lab in the United States in Los Angeles.
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He developed a comparison microscope that was first used to compare bullets to see if they were fired from the same weapon.
