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Forensic Science Through Time

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44 BCE ~First Autopsy~

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The first autopsy every performed or known of was on 44 BCE. Julius Caesar was assassinated and his body, had an autopsy performed on it by a physician. As a result of the autopsy he had 23 wounds, yet out of those wounds just one was fatal.

600 ~Fingerprints~

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During this time fingerprints were used to be able to find out identity. This was done and founded by Arabic merchants. They would also take the fingerprints and put them to a bill.

1248 THE First Forensic Science Book

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The book of Xi Yuan Ji Lu (The Washing Away of Wrongs), was the first forensic science book published by the Chinese. It is known that China has a well known timeline with forensic science.

1835

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The first bullet comparison to catch a murder was done. This was done by Henry Goddard, who was also one of Scotlands Yard's Bow Street Runners. What he was able to compare was all based on a visible flaw in the bullet. Which in fact went back and tracked to a mold.

1856

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Sir William Herschel, a British officer working for the Indian Civil. He started using thumbprints on documentation’s and as a substitution for signatures for illiterates and to be able to verify documents signatures.

1879

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A prominent German pathologist by the name of Rudolph Virchow, was the first to use hair analysis in investigations. Was also one of the first to know the limitations of using hair as evidence, saying that individual hairs can vary and can't be used to identify a single person.

1892

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"Fingerprints" by Francis Galton. He designed a form for recording inked fingerprints impressions. In it it shows what three main pattern types loops, whorls, and arches that don't form circles.

1900

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Winner of a Nobel prize Karl Landsteiner first discovered human blood groups and the development of the ABO system of blood. In other words when different blood gets mixed, the red blood cells sometimes clumped.

Max Richter reshaped the technique to type of stains. which helped validate experiments to be able to adapt a method for forensic science.

1905

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President Theodore Roosevelt established the Federal Bureau Investigation FBI. He did this to investigate corruption in the government. Even though at the time being it was still called the Bureau of Investigation BOI.

Its first task was to check brothels to later on enforce the Mann Act, and investigate domestic violence, and so much more.

1910

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The first police crime laboratory. Established by Edmund Locard in Lyon, France. A criminologist and pioneer of forensic science.

1923

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The first U.S. police crime laboratory.

Established in Los Angeles, California by August Vollmer a chief of police in Los Angeles police department.

1950

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The American Academy of Forensic Science. "The Journal of Forensic Science" the scientific journal where member by the academy published research and finding connecting to forensic science disciplines.

1960

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Maurice Muller from Switzerland adapted the Ouchterlony antigen-antibody diffusion test for species testing. this technique wasn't refined until the 1960's.

1971

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"The Examination and Typing of Bloodstains in the Crime Laboratory" was published by Bryan J. Culliford. Which was the key that standardized and disseminated reliable protocols for tyoing polymorphic protien and enzyme markers. Which is actually used in bloodstain analysis worldwide! It made an impact for forensic scientists whom studied bloodstain analysis.

1984

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The first DNA profiling case.This was done by Sir Alec Jeffreys, which was able to help later on for him to be able to identify who was the murderer of two little girls, which the person who was the murderer was Colin Pitchfork. Jeffreys published his work to Nature in 1985.

1990's

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DNA evidence was introduced. It helped identify suspects and famous criminals. This did a turn especially for those who were wrongfully convicted.

1998

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The FBI created a database which was able to help find how crimes were connected. It was able to help if some crimes where done by the same person or if it was someone else.

1916

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A vacuum was used to get evidence. It is interesting since this was able to help find discoveries later on for other crimes that were committed and by who.

1829

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"The Pink Teeth" Thomas Bell explained how pink teeth shows that the body was hanging or drowning. This was helpful to be able to identify bodies way of death.

1854

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The first use of photos for identification. In San Fransisco which was the first city in the United States to be able to use photos for criminal identification. Which made good use for photographing inmates for prison records.