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A murder near a rice field. The victim had been slashed repeatedly, and investigators suspected the weapon used was a sickle. The local magistrate brought all the workers together and told them to lay down their sickles. Though all the tools looked clean, one quickly attracted hordes of flies. The flies could sense the residue of blood and tissue invisible to the human eye. When confronted by this jury of flies, the murderer confessed to the crime.
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"Father if Foresnsic Toxicology." Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation.
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Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
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"Father of Criminal Identification." 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; considered the first "CSI," featured in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods.
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Published "Finger Prints." Conducted the first defenitive study of fingerprints and their classification. Gave proof of their uniqueness
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Wrote first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published "Criminal Investigation."
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Discovered the ABO blood groups, later recieved Nobel Prize.
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Incorperated Gross' principles within a worable 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." Developed the fundemental 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 they were fired from the same weapon.
