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The first ever known record for medical knowledge
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First pathology reports published
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First recorded instance of physical matching of evidence leading to a murder
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German chemist developed a method of detecting a victim's stomach
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Clothing and shoes are now had to be searched to find more evidence to solve a crime
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Use of chemical processes to determine poison in the the victim's blood cells
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San Francisco used photography for criminal identification and were the first city to use the method
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Francis Galton was the first scientist to identify different types of fingerprints: Plain loop, tented arch, simple loop, central pocket loop, double loop, lateral pocket loop,etc
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Juan Vucetich began the first fingerprint files based on Galton pattern types
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Human blood grouping, ABO, discovered and adapted for use of blood stains
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NY state prison planned to use fingerprint identification
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The first school of forensic science founded by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss
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Victor Balthazard & Marcelle Lambert published first study of hair from animals. Legal to use this method
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First police crime lab established in Los Angeles
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Prototype polygraph was invented by John Larson in 1921, developed for use in police stations
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FBI established the National Crime Information Center, a computerized national filing on wanted people, stolen vehicles, weapons
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FBI established a computerized fingerprint reader
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Online footwear coding developed. Helps police to identify footwear marks
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Michigan State University develops a software that automatically matches hand drawn sketches an stored into the database