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Forensic Science timeline

1903

1903

The New York State Prison system began the first systematic use of fingerprints in United States for criminal

identification.

1916

1916

Albert Schneider of Berkeley, California first used a vacuum apparatus to collect trace evidence.

1924

1924

August Vollmer, as chief of police in Los Angeles, California, implemented the first U.S. police crime laboratory.

1941

1941

Murray Hill of Bell Labs initiated the study voiceprint identification

1979

1979

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.

1986

1986

Alec Jeffreys used DNA profiling to identify Colin Pitchfork as the murderer of

two young girls in the English Midlands.

1987

1987

DNA profiling was introduced for the first time in a U.S. criminal court

1987

1987

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.

1934

1934

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.

1989

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.

1989

1985

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.

1985

1996

1996

In Tennessee v. Ware, mitochondrial DNA typing was admitted for the first time in a U.S. court.

1998

An FBI DNA database, (NIDIS), enabling interstate cooperation in linking crimes, was put into practice

1998

1912

Masaeo Takayama developed another microscopic crystal test for hemoglobin using hemochromogen crystals

1912

1921

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

1921

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