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The first case ever recorded using forensic science.
The case was about someone that got stabbed in the rice fields. The investigators went around the village and collected everyone's knives. Since flies are attracted to traces of blood, they only landed on one of the knives which caused the suspect to confess. -
He was considered the "Father of Toxicology" because he was one of the first people to use different forensic medicines and poisons on animals to show the effects of them.
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Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
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He was the "Father of Criminal Identifications" and developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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Published his first Sherlock Holmes story and is considered the first "CSI," featured in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods.
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Published the book "Finger Prints" and was the first to conduct the definitive study of fingerprints and their classification and also gave proof of uniqueness.
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Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the first field of criminal investigations. He also published Criminal Investigations.
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Discovered the ABO blood groups and later received a noble prize.
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Incorporated Gross' principles within workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.
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Published Questioned Documents and developed the fundamental principles of document examination.
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Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood
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Established the First Crime Lab in the United States, located in Los Angeles
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Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon
