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First recorded autopsy
In 44BC following the assassination of Julius Caesar the attending physician proclaimed that of the 23 wounds found on the body ‘only one’ was fatal. -
Jan 1, 1248
Early Forensic Study
A Chinese book called Xi Yuan Lu (the washing away of wrongs), contains a description of how to distinguish drowning from strangulation. This was the first recorded application of medical knowledge and entomology to solve criminal cases. -
Feb 13, 1547
Begining of Forensic pathology
Dr. Ambroise Paré, a French army surgeon, a French army surgeon, strated to study the violent of death upon the internal organs systematically. It started the begining of modern forensic study. -
Physical Matching
A man named John Toms was convicted of murder by the physical matching of evidence. They matched a piece of torn news paper in a pistol to a piece of torn newspaper in his pocket. -
Footprint
A French detective is the pioneer to use ballistics and makes plaster casts of shoe impressions to solve crimes. -
Bullet Matching
Henry Herbert Goddard was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. He was the first to use physical analysis to attempt to connect a bullet to a muder weapon. -
Forensic Photography
Odelbrecht first advocated the use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes. -
modus operandi
English police constable Major L.W. Atcherley develops the concept of modus operandi (“method of operation”) by using different crime scenes to establish a pattern of behavior that indicates a common pertetrator. -
First fingerprinting Bureau
Juan Vucetich made the first criminal fingerprint identification in 1892. He was able to identify Francis Rojas, a woman who murdered her two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to place blame on another. Her bloody print was left on a door post, proving her identity as the murderer. -
Comparison microscope
In the 1920s forensic ballistics was waiting at its inception. In 1929, using a comparison microscope adapted for the purpose by Calvin Goddard and his partner Phillip Gravelle used similar techniques to absolve the Chicago Police Department of participation in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. -
Luminol
In 1937, the German forensic scientist Walter Specht made extensive studies of luminol's application to the detection of blood at crime scenes.[9] -
Bite Marks
One of the first published accounts involving a conviction based on bite marks as evidence was the “Gorringe case”, in 1948, in which pathologist Keith Simpson used bite marks on the breast of the victim to seal a murder conviction against Robert Gorringe for the murder of his wife Phyllis. Another early case was Doyle v. State, which occurred in Texas in 1954. -
Automated fingerprint identification system
The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed another era of civil turmoil and an unprecedented rise in crime rates, but this era happened to coincide with the development of the silicon chip. The challenges inherent in identification systems seemed ready-made for the solutions of automatic data processing, and AFIS—Automated Fingerprint
Identification System—was born. -
Combined DNA Index System
The DNA Identification Act of 1994 formally authorized the FBI to operate CODIS and set national standards for forensic DNA testing. The TWGDAM guidelines served as interim standards until recommendations were provided by a DNA Advisory Board required under the Act. Although the Act was passed in 1994, CODIS did not become fully operational until 1998. -
DNA profiling history
DNA was first used to aid a criminal investigation by Professor Jeffreys in 1986.
