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Hammurabi takes fingerprints of people who had been arrested
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Handprints used in China as evidence in a trial for theft
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Song Ci writes "Xi Yuan Lu", account of using medicine and entomology to solve criminal cases
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(16th century) European army doctors begin to gather info about manner of death
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Carl Wilhelm Steele invents method for detecting arsenic in corpses
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Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard creates the comparison microscope to examine bullets and shell casings
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Scottish chemist James Marsh develops a chemical test to detect arsenic
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French police officer Alphonse Bertillon develops method to classify criminals, including mugshots
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Jack the Ripper large door-to-door investigation; earliest surviving offender profile
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Sir Francis Galton establishes process for classifying fingerprints
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Argentinian police chief Juan Vucetich creates a method of recording criminal fingerprints and first fingerprint bureau
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Hans Gross writes "Handbook for Coroners, Police officials, and Military Policemen", birth of the field of criminalistics
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Sir Edward Henry develops the standard for criminal fingerprinting classification techniques
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Paul Unlenhuth develops test to distinguish human blood from animal blood
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NY police commissioner Joseph Faurot introduces criminal fingerprinting to US
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Frenchman Edmond Locard set up the first crime lab
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LA police chief August Vollmer established the first American crime lab
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Karl Landsteiner develops human blood classification system, ABO, wins Nobel Prize
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Scientists at Aerospace Corp of California develop method for using electron microscope to examine gunshot residue
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first use of a forensic DNA Analysis
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DNA Fingerprinting used to convict Colin Pitchfork of the murder of 2 teenage girls