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In 13th century China, authorities used forensic entomology to find out the assailant in a murder. They lined up all the workers' sickles and one attracted many flies. That was the murder weapon.
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Mathieu Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation.
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William Herschel was a British man who used thumbprints as identification on contracts in India.
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Alphonse Bertillon used anthropological techniques to use body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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Faulds developed a technique to determine the innocent vs. the guilty based on fingerprints.
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In 1887, Doyle published the first Sherlock Holmes story. It was considered the first CSI in 4 novels and 56 short stories.
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Galton conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints. He determined that all fingerprints were unique.
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Gross wrote the first paper on the principles of criminal investigation.
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Karl discovered the ABO blood group and received a Nobel prize.
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Locard incorporated investigation principles into a workable crime lab. He also founded the institute of criminalistics at the University of Lyons.
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Osborn developed the fundamental principles of examining documents.
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Lattes discovered the method of determining blood type from dried stains.
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Vollmer established the first crime lab in the US. The crime lab is in Los Angeles, California.
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Goddard was the first person to develop the comparison microscope, used to compare bullets to see if they wer fired from the same weapon.
