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1247
13th Century China
There was a murder in 1247, and a person was killed with a sickle. They weren't sure who did it, so they had all the farmers lay their sickles out and soon enough one of the sickles was swarmed by flies becasue of the microscopic blood and tissue on the sickle that the flies sensed. -
Mathieu Orfila
He wanted to make chemical analysis the norm of forensics, so he studied the decomposition of bodies, and others. He is also given credit to being the first to use a microscope to examine blood and semen stains, -
William Herschel
He was the first person to use fingerprints as a practical way fo documenting people. He realized that fingerprints were permanent and unchanging. In India, he used fingerprints as a way of documenting workers. -
Alphonse Bertillon
He is called the father of Criminal Identification. He used body measurements like height, weight, and facial features to find criminals. Also was the first to use a mug shot. -
Henry Faulds
He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent suspect in a burglary -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints. Conducted first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publsihed first Sherlock Holmes story. Considered first CSI agent. Popularized crime-detection methods. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published Criminal Investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood groups, later received Nobel Prize. -
Edmond Locard
Incorporated Gross' principle within a workable crime lab; became founder and director of the institute of criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France, -
Albert S. Osborn
Published Questioned Documents. Developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method for determining blood types with dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Established the first crime lab in the United States in LA. -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see of fired from the same weapon.
