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San Francisco uses photography for criminal identification, the first city in the US to do so. -
Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert publish first study on hair, including microscopic studies from most animals. First legal case ever involving hair also took place following this study.
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Joseph Bell FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He is best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes -
a knife with a small, sharp, sometimes detachable blade, as used by a surgeon -
used in police stations -
William Marvin Bass III is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-U.S. authorities in the identification of human remains. -
First police crime lab established in Los Angeles. -
William Ross Maples, Ph.D. was an American forensic anthropologist working at the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History. His specialty was the study of bones. -
A sound spectrograph discovered to be able to record voices. Voiceprints began to be used in investigations and as court evidence from recordings of phones, answering machines, or tape recorders. -
American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 20 women in the 1970s. He was executed in the electric chair in 1989.
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Britain's Forensic Science Service develops online footwear coding and detection system. This helps police to identify footwear marks quickly. -
Michigan state university develops software that automatically matches hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots stored in databases.