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  Someone was stabbed so they took all the knives and laid them out and which ever one the flies flew to was the one used in the killing
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  the father of forensic toxicology because he texted poisons on animals to study the effects
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  used thumbprints to document workers in India
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  father of criminal identification. developed anthropometry which used body measurements to distinguish individuals
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  used fingerprints to prove the innocence of a burglar
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  published his first sherlock holmes story; considered the first CSI featured in 4 novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods
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  published fingerprints. conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. gave proof of their uniqueness.
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  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 Nobel Prize
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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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  published Questioned Documents. developed the fundamental principles of document examination
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  Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood.
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  Established first crime lab in the united states, located in LA
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  Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon