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The United KingdomHome Secretary Office conducted an inquiry into Identification of criminals by measurement and fingerprints
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The United States Army start using fingerprints, DC to provide a centralized reference collection of fingerprint cards
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The first official fingerprint card was developed
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First palm print identification is made in Nevada.Bloody palm print, found on a letter left at the scene was later identified to Ben Kuhl.
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Edmond Locard suggested that there was 12 matching points as a positive fingerprint identification
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J. Edgar Hoover,who been appointed acting director less than two months earlier, quickly formed a Division of identification
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Frank Lundquist develops the acid phosphatase test for semen
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Max Frei-Sulzer develops the tape lift method of collecting trace evidence
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James Watson and Francis Crick published a landmark paper identifying the structure of DNA
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R.F. Brokenstein, Captain of the Indiana state police, invented the Breathalyzer for field sobriety testing
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Mocker and Stewart developed skeletal growth stages
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Computer data base of fingerprints was developed, which came to be known as the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). Present day, there are nearly 70 million cards, or nearly 700 million individual fingerprints entered in AFIS.
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Alec Jeffreys developed the first DNA profiling test.
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Mitochondria DNA evidence is used in court for the first time in the U.S.
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An FBI DNA database,NDIS(National DNA Index System), is put into practice