History of Forensics

3rd century China

Carl Scheele conducted tests to detect Arsenic in corpses

Published article on detection of poison and its effects

Helped people discover more physical evidence

Alphonse Bertillon introduced this system, forming a new branch of forensics; Anthropometry

Allowed for more accurate reading

This figure influenced crime television shows, like CSi, and this led people to be interested in forensic science.

Karl Landsteiner discovered that there are many different blood types

This led to an end to Anthropometry and led to the use of fingerprinting.

A principle by Edmond Locard which says that a perpetrator of a crime can bring something into a crime scene and leave with something from it. "cross-transfer" This was used to find evidence