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The first known legal autopsy took place in 1302 in Bologna.
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He is a German chemist who came up with a way to discover arsenic poisoning inside a human.
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San Fransisco is the first in the US to use photography in criminal investigations.
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He wrote the earliest reference to blood spatter that we know. He ran the test at University of Poland.
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He created a system that was used in Scotland, that is now still commonly used for fingerprinting.
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Police first used fingerprints in 1902 as evidence. This was a great help with English court cases.
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The first crime lab is built for police to use in Los Angeles.
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MacDonell, a forensic scientist, helped to expand and modernize the field of blood spatter through his publication of "Flight Characteristics of Human Blood and Stain Patterns".
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He was caught and convicted for sexual assaults by using a DNA profiling system.
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He is the first person to be convicted of a crime using DNA fingerprinting.He was caught from using a mass DNA screening.
