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History of Forensics

  • First Autopsy
    44 BCE

    First Autopsy

    A roman physician performed the first official autopsy.
  • 6 BCE

    When Forensics was founded.

    It was founded earliest around the 6th century in china. This is the earliest known concept but could be earlier.It was founded by a book called “Ming Yuen Shih Lu”.
  • FIngerprints
    600

    FIngerprints

    This is the first time fingerprints were used to identify people. Arabic merchants would take fingerprints of people to identify them.
  • first physical evidence

    This was the first cased where physical evidence was used to convict John Toms where a newspaper was on the pistol that matched the one in his pocket
  • Poison investigation.

    Poison investigation.

    German chemist came up with a method to detect arsenic in a victims stomach leading to the research or poison.
  • Mathieu Orfila

    Called the father of toxicology.French doctor Orfila made a test for arsenic used to convict a woman of murder.
  • John Evangelist Purkinje and Francis Galton

    These two people have made fingerprint detection what it is now. Francis Galton, on the other hand, a cousin of Charles Darwin took there work and went with it after the other two failed. he outline the first detailed model of fingerprint analysis.
  • Photo identification

    San Francisco is the first to use photos to identify people.
  • Anthropometry

    Was used to measure the bones and physical features
  • Blood

    Blood

    blood grouping was discovered.
  • Fingerprint Prison ID

    NYC is the prison to use fingerprints to identify prisoners.
  • Ted Bundy

    Ted Bundy

    He was estimated for the murder of over 30 people but there was little to no evidence against him before his arrest. having been convicted only of kidnapping, Bundy was preparing to stand trial for murder in Colorado when he escaped and headed to Florida.He killed more people in 1978 when he was convicted of murder.and the most crucial part was matching bite marks,