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1300
13th Century China
The first ever documented case of forensics happened when a murder took place in a village with a knife. To catch the murderer, the government took all the knives from the villagers and flies had attracted to the murder weapon, leading to the confession of the murderer. -
Father of Toxicology- Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu Orfila used poisons and other toxic substances on animals to study the effects and look for patterns. This led to the field of forensics, toxicology -
William Herschel- Founder of the fingerprint
William Herschel, used fingerprints to document his workers in India. -
Father of Criminal Identification (Alphonse Bertillon)
Developed Anthropometry, which is when you use body measurements to distinguish individuals -
Exoneration- Henry Fauld
Henry Fauld is the first man to prove a man's innocence by the use of fingerprints -
Sherlock Holmes volume 1
Sir Arthur Conan Dovie the first 4 books of Sherlock Holmes, and that definitely popularized the last. -
Finger Prints, all unique
Francis Galton writes a book called Finger Prints, which proves that all finger prints are unique, and states the classification. -
Criminal Investigation + Scientific Principles
Hans Gross makes the first criminal case file, and includes scientific principles in the documents -
Blood Types A, B, and O
Karl Landsteiner discovered the A,B, and O blood groups, later received Nobel Prize. -
Institution of Criminalistics
Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France. -
Questioned Documents
Albert S. Osborn, published questions documents. Developed the fundamental principles of documents examination. -
Blood type method
Leone Lattes developed a method for determining blood type from dried -
First Crime Lab
August Vollmer established the first Crime Lab in the United States, located in Los Angeles -
Comparison Microscope
Calvin Goddard developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullet to see if fired from the same weapon.
