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Jul 3, 1248
Medicine and Entomology
the case of a person murdered with a sickle was solved by a death investigator who instructed everyone to bring his sickle to one location. Flies, attracted by the smell of blood, eventually gathered on a single sickle. In light of this, the murderer confessed -
Simple Arsenic
Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele devised a way of detecting arsenous oxide, simple arsenic, in corpses, which was later used as evidence of poisoning in murder cases. -
Pistol Murder
John Toms was tried and convicted for murdering Edward Culshaw with a pistol. When the dead body of Culshaw was examined, a pistol wad found in his head wound matched perfectly with a torn newspaper found in Toms' pocket. -
Poolside murder
a farm labourer was tried and convicted of the murder of a young maidservant. She had been drowned in a shallow pool and bore the marks of violent assault. The police found footprints and an impression from corduroy cloth with a sewn patch in the damp earth near the pool. There were also scattered grains of wheat and chaff. The breeches of a farm labourer who had been threshing wheat nearby were examined and corresponded exactly to the impression in the earth near the pool. -
Finger Prints
Police started using fingerprints for evidence when Juan Vucetich solved a murder case in Argentina by cutting off a piece of door with a bloody fingerprint on it. -
Forensics School
Rodolphe Archibald Reiss founded the first school of forensic science in the world -
Archimedes Solution B.C.
Archimedes develops a way to measure the volume of irregular objects, and in doing so exposes a lying goldsmith.
