History of autopsies and forensic science

By sadie.fleischman
  • Jan 1, 1302

    First autopsy

    First autopsy
    The first known legal autopsy took place in 1302 in Bologna.

  • Valentin Ross

    He is a German chemist who came up with a way to discover arsenic poisoning inside a human.

  • Photo Identification

    Photo Identification
    San Fransisco is the first in the US to use photography in criminal investigations.

  • Eduard Pitoroski

    He wrote the earliest reference to blood spatter that we know. He ran the test at University of Poland.

  • Galton-Henry Fingerprint system

    He created a system that was used in Scotland, that is now still commonly used for fingerprinting.

  • Fingerprints

    Fingerprints
    Police first used fingerprints in 1902 as evidence. This was a great help with English court cases.

  • Crime Labs

    The first crime lab is built for police to use in Los Angeles.

  • Herbert MacDonell

    Herbert MacDonell
    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".

  • Tommy Lee Andrews

    Tommy Lee Andrews
    He was caught and convicted for sexual assaults by using a DNA profiling system.

  • Colin Pitchfork

    Colin Pitchfork
    He is the first person to be convicted of a crime using DNA fingerprinting.He was caught from using a mass DNA screening.