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A person was stabbed and the town collected knives from everyone in the town. Flies flew to the knife with blood on it.
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He published the first scientific paper on the detection of poisons.
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He used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
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He developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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He uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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He published his first Sherlock Holmes story; considered the first CSI story.
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He published the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification.
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Wrote the fist paper describing the application of the principles of science to the field of criminal investigation.
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He discovered the ABO blood types.
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He became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.
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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 US, in Los Angeles.
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He developed a comparison microscope, first used to compare bullets.
