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Roman physician, Antistius, performed an autopsy on the
deceased body of Julius Caesar. -
Fingerprints are used on clay tablets for business
transaction in ancient Babylon. -
Erasistratus, an ancient Greek physician, discovers that
his patients' pulse rates increase when they are telling
lies. Allegedly the first lie detection test. -
A murder was committed using a sickle. All those in the
village who owned one were made to bring them out and
lay them in the sun. Eventually flies gathered on one
particular sickle, identifying it as the murder weapon. -
The Chinese book His Duan Yu describes how to distinguish
drowning and strangulation on a corspe. The first
recorded application of medicine to help solve crimes. -
The missing teeth of the French Duke of Burgundy are used
to identify remains. -
Taylor and Wikes write a paper on the determination of
time since death from fall in body temperature,
introducing many current concepts. -
First advocation of the use of photography for the
identification of criminals and the documentation of
evidence and crime scenes. -
Henry Faulds of Scotland publishes a paper suggesting
fingerprints at the scene of a crime could identify the
offender. -
Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian Doctor, began separating
the blood groups, allowing for the identification of
blood possible and making blood transfusions safe. -
The NY States Prison system begins the first
systematic use of fingerprints in the United States for
criminal identification. -
John Larson, a medical student at the University of
California, designed the portable polygraph. -
Richard Drew invents tape lifting. Tape lifting is
designed for lifting and preserving fingerprints and
other physical evidence from multiple surfaces. These
tapes are used to lift palm and fingerprints. -
The FBI started using psychological profiling.
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Alec Jeffreys had discovered the first technique for DNA
profiling which have expanded on to have the technology
we use today.
