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Carl W. Scheele, a Swedish chemist, devised the test for detecting arsenic in corpses.
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chemical test invented in Germany, designed to test a particular type of ink used on documents
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Dr John Davy investigated into the measuring of body temperature to ascertain times of death
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In 1835 Scotland Yard traced a physical flaw in a bullet back to the mold and discovered the person who had bought it
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Alphonse Bertillon, a French anthropologist, introduced the
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The world’s first fingerprint bureau was established in Argentina after a well-publicized case where a bloody fingerprint identified a killer.
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Los Angeles PD Crime Lab is the first in the US
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FBI National Laboratory opened under Director J. Edgar
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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‘Footwear Intelligence Technology’ (FIT) contains thousands of footwear prints and impressions which can be used to quickly identify the footwear that caused the mark
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forensic linguistics, involving the examination of written and spoken language may develop further
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by measuring and logging down a large number of blood drops on say, a wall of a room, the software can predict where in the room the blood