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Fingerprints are used on clay tablets for business transaction in ancient Babylon.
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Erasistratus, an ancient greek physician, discovers that his patients' heart rate raised when they told lies.
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Chinese book His Duan Yu distinguishes drowning from strangulation.
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Bartolomeo da Varignana performed the first medicolegal autopsies in the suspected murder of a nobleman.
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John Toms is convicted of murder on the basis of a torn wad of paper found in a pistol matching a remaining piece in his pocket.
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Henry Goddard uses bullet comparison to catch a murderer. The comparison was based in a visible flaw in a pistol matching a remaining piece in his pocket.
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Taylor and Wilkes write a paper on the determination of time since death from fall in body temperature.
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Henry Faulds publishes a paper suggesting fingerprints at the scene of a crime could identify the offender.
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New York prison systems begin the first use of fingerprints in the US criminal identification.
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Dental records are compared with teeth from a corpse.
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R.F. Borkenstein invents the breathalyzer for field sobriety testing.
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FBI introduces the beginnings of the Automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS)
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