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A guy was stabbed and the village figured out the murder weapon by testing different blades on animal carcasses.
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He is considered the Father of Toxicology because he made chemical analysis a part of forensic medicine and studied the decomposition of bodies.
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He used thumbprints in India to identify workers
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Considered the father of Criminal Identification and developed Anthropometry to use body measurements to differentiate people.
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He used fingerprints to figure out an innocent burglary suspect.
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Published Sherlock Holmes and considered the first CSI that was in four novels and 56 short readings popularizing scientific crime-detection methods.
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Published Finger Prints and conducted the first study of fingerprints and their classification by giving proof of their uniqueness.
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He wrote the first paper that described how the scientific principles apply to the field of criminal investigation; he then later published Criminal Investigation.
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Discovered the blood types and later received a Nobel prize.
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He used Gross’ principles within a workable crime lab, and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.
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He published Questioned Documents and developed the important principles of document examination
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They developed a way to determining blood type from dried blood.
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Made the first crime lab in LA, California
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Invented a comparison microscope, and was the first to compare bullets to see if they were fired by the same weapon.
