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The first forensic autopsies were done in Bologna by a civil officer to determine if a death being investigated was caused by fault
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Fingerprints first used to determine identity. Arabic merchants would take a debtor's fingerprint and attach it to the bill.
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pioneered the anatomical by dissecting cadavers to study how organs and nerves worked
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Julius Caesar was murder. When this occurred a physician performed an autopsy, and said that the 23 wounds found on the body, only one was fatal.
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Mathieu Orfila is thought of as the father of toxicology because he founded the science of toxicology. He first established a systematic correlation between the chemical and biological properties of poisons. First treatment in 1813 in his Traité des poisons, also called Toxicologie générale .He demonstrated effects of poisons on specific organs by analyzing autopsy materials for poisons and their associated tissue damage.
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San Francisco uses photography for criminal identification, the first city in the US to do so.
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Rudolf Virchow wrote the standards of autopsies. The standards are still used today
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Edward Harry developed the first classification system for fingerprint identification. That was soon used during a court case to solve a crime.
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Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert publish first study on hair. First legal case ever involving hair also took place following this study.
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CT Scan is used to reveal the real cause of death of King Tut. He died due to a infection of the leg
