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1903
Albert Schneider of Berkeley, California first used a vacuum apparatus to collect trace evidence.
August Vollmer, as chief of police in Los Angeles, California, implemented the first U.S. police crime laboratory.
Murray Hill of Bell Labs initiated the study voiceprint identification
In 1979 Ted Bundy was the first man that was put in jail because of odontology. This was when the forensics realized they can use odontology to catch criminals.
Alec Jeffreys used DNA profiling to identify Colin Pitchfork as the murderer of
two young girls in the English Midlands.
DNA profiling was introduced for the first time in a U.S. criminal court
New York v. Castro was the first case in which the admissibility of DNA was seriously challenged. It set in motion astring of events that culminated in a call for certification, accreditation, standardization, and quality control guidelines
for both DNA laboratories and the general forensic community.
Bonnie and Clyde were a very popular couple during the Great Depression but died in 1934 with having 13 murders to their name as well as many robberies. This has to do with forensic science because they had to examine each and every one of their crimes especially the wepons they used using Ballistics.
Aileen Wournos was the first female serial killer to get put on death row. This had to do with forensics because since she used a gun to kill one of her victims, they used ballistics to identify that it was her.
Richard Ramirez also known as The Night Walker murderer was caught due to forensics using fingerprints from where the last crime took place to catch this criminal.
In Tennessee v. Ware, mitochondrial DNA typing was admitted for the first time in a U.S. court.
An FBI DNA database, (NIDIS), enabling interstate cooperation in linking crimes, was put into practice
Masaeo Takayama developed another microscopic crystal test for hemoglobin using hemochromogen crystals
John Larson and Leonard Keeler designed the portable polygraph which helps forensics because it tells if someone is lying or not possibly about a crime