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1) The first case known to use forensic science 2) A villager was stabbed and to find out who committed the crime, they collected all knives from the village and saw that flies were only attracted to one of them, causing the suspect to confess
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He is considered the Father of Forensic Toxicology because he published the first scientific paper on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals
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used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India
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1) Known as the father of criminal identification
2) Developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals -
uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect
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1) Published his first Sherlock Holmes story
2) Considered the first "CSI", featured in four novels and 56 short stories & popularized scientific crime-detection methods -
1) published Finger Prints
2) conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification, which gave proof of their uniqueness from one another -
wrote the 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 received the Nobel Prize
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published Questioned Documents & developed the fundamental principles of document examination
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incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France
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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
