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13th Century China
An investigator identified the weapon used was a sickle so he asked all workers at the rice field to lay their sickles down. All seemed clean but one attracted flies which could sense the blood residue left on the sickle and was arrested. -
Mathieu Orfila
Orfila was considered the Father of Forensic Toxicology because he created new techniques and refined existing techniques to accurately identify the poison being used in a crime. -
William James Herschel
Herschel discovered that fingerprints do not change over time and so he recommended the Bengal government to require fingerprints on legal documents to prevent impersonation and repudiation of contracts. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon, a French policeman, created the first system of physical measurement to identify criminals and to quickly identify repeated offenders. -
Henry Faulds
Suggested the use of fingerprints in the forensic work to eliminate innocent suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
An author who featured the famous Sherlock Holmes in four novels and 56 short stories -
Francis Galton
Published 'Finger Prints' which gave scientific proof of their uniqueness and of the classification system for fingerprints. -
Hans Gross
The publication of the book 'Criminal Investigation' helped establish the science of forensics in which they cross-transfer the evidence -
Karl Landsteiner
Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 after discovering ABO bloods groups in 1901 -
Edmond Locard
Opened the world's first crime investigation lab in Lyons, France. Simplified Gross' principles in saying "with contact between two items, there will be an exchange". -
Albert S. Osborn
Published 'Questioned Documents' involving the development of the fundamental principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method where dried bloods stains could be restored and blood types could be determined -
August Vollmer
First police chief of Berkeley, CA. Established the first American police crime laboratory. Transformed policing in what it is today -
Calvin Goddard
Developed the comparison microscope to examine if the bullet casing's markings matched to of a suspect's bullet case. Solved the St. Valentine Day's Massacre in 1929 with this method.
