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Antistius examined Julius Caesar's body in order to determine the fatal wound that led to his death.
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King Richard was the first to put into practice the idea of using coroner to investigate questionable deaths.
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Ci Song's text on autopsies is the earliest known book to have survived. It tells how he became one of the best forensic scientists of his time.
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Emperor Charles V made the first law requiring an autopsy in the case of an "unnatural" death.
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He was the first to identify somebody by their teeth. He had crafted his friend dentures out of hippopotamus teeth and recognized them in order to give him a heros funeral.
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The first time physical evidence is documented in the use of convicting someone of a crime is when an English man was convicted of murder after there was a piece of newspaper in his pocket that matched the torn edge of a newspaper stuffed in a pistol.
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Valentin Rose used the method of boiling stomachs and removing all the organic matter in order to isolate the poison used.
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Henry Goddard used the first bullet comparison in order to catch a murderer.
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Required the standardization of a specific series of steps in order to preform an autopsy leading to more discoveries.
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Alphonse Bertillon creates a system to identify individuals using their finger prints.
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Alphonse published a book to standardize the lighting and angles used in mug shots used to identify criminals.
