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An autopsy is performed on Caeser and it was discovered that he was stabbed 23 times but only one was fatal.
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Fingerprints first used to determine identity.
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The Chinese create the first Forensic Science. First recorded instance of using medical findings to solve crime.
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First recorded instance of physical matching of evidence leading to the murder conviction of John Toms from England. Evidence was a torn edge of newspaper in a pistol that matched newspaper in his pocket.
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James Marsh, a chemical scientist in England, determines arsenic is what killed someone for a murder trial.
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San Francisco uses photography for criminal identification, the first city in the United States to do so.
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Coroners are used to establish if a person died of a violent, un-natural, or sudden death. Arthur Conan Doyle also publishes the first Sherlock Holmes book.
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The first school of forensic science founded by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, in Switzerland.
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The first ever police station crime lab is built in Los Angeles.
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A sound spectrograph discovered to be able to record voices. Voiceprints began to be used in investigations and as court evidence from recordings of phones, answering machines, or tape recorders.
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The FBI established the first ever National Crime System. With this new computerized system people can track wanted people, stolen vehicles, weapons, and much more.
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First fingerprint reader installed at the FBI
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DNA fingerprinting led to conviction of Colin Pitchfork in the murder of two teenage girls. This evidence cleared the main suspect in the case, who likely would have been convicted without it.
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The National Academy of Sciences tells the world that using DNA in Forensics is a reliable source.
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Japanese scientists develop a new dental matching system that automatically recognizes dental matches. It can make positive dental matches in 4 seconds.
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The Michigan State University develops a new program that matches hand-drawn facial sketches to mugshots that are in the National Crime System