Tatum Kinsey's and Alejandra Zapata's Timeline by ALEJANDRA ZAPATA

44 BCE- First autopsy

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Julius Caesar was assassinated. A physician performed an autopsy and determined that of the 23 wounds, only one was fatal

600 - First use of fingerprints

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Finger prints were first used to figure out identity. Arabic merchants would take a debtors fingerprint and attach it to the bill.

1284- First forensic science book

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First forensic science manual published by the Chinese. This manual was the first known record of medical knowledge being applied to forensic science.

1600- First pathology report was published

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1784- Physical evidence used in criminal case

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First record instance of physical evidence leading to a murder conviction. The evidence was a torn piece of newspaper in a pistol that matched the newspaper in his pocket.

1836- Chemical Testing utalized

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James Marsh uses chemical processes to determine arsenic as cause of death.

1854- First use of photos as Identification

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San Francisco used photography for criminal identification (Mugshots)

1880- Fingerprints were discovered to be unique

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Henry frauds and William james herschel publish paper describing the uniqueness of fingerprints, their findings were then adapted to court. Galton created the classification of fingerprints.

1888- Criminal features reduced to numerical measurements

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Anthropometry, a system using various of measurements of physical feature and bones, could reduce criminal information to a set of numbers

1887- Sherlock Holmes and the coroner

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The coroners act was created. This enacted the policy that coroners were to determine causes of unnatural deaths.

1892- Fingerprint I.D. was used in a crime

26alejandrazapata — 2024-08-19 18:49:34 UTC

Juan vucetich is the first to use fingerprints as evidence in a murder investigation. He invented a method of fingerprint identification known as dactyloscopy.

1901- investigation into blood marketers

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Human blood grouping is adapted for use on bloodstains by Dieter Dax Richter

1909- Learning about forensics

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First school of forensic science was founded in switzerland. It was founded by Rodolphe archibald.

1910- Hair is now used in forensics

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Victor balthazard publish study on hair. Legal cases involving hair soon follow this study.

1912- Guns are unique

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Victor balthazard figured out that gun barrels leave unique individual markings on each bullet fired. He developed methods to match bullets to guns.

1923- First police crime lab established in Los Angeles.

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Officer rex welsh established one of the first modern laboratories in the united states.

1932- FBI established its own crime laboratory

26alejandrazapata — 2024-08-19 18:54:28 UTC

FBI establishes its own crime lab, now one of the foremost crime labs in the world. A chair of legal medicine was established in the same year as well.

1960- Voice recording used as evidence

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A sound spectrograph was discovered to be able to record voices. Voiceprints began to be used in investigations and as court evidence.

1967- First national crime scene

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FBI establishes the national crime information center, a electronic filing system in which stolen vehicles, wanted criminals,etc were kept.

1974- Advances in residue collection

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Gunshot residue can now link a suspect to a crime scene and show how close and far the suspect was in relation to the gun.

1979, Auto fingerprint system