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Murder of Sara Lynn WineskiScheele develops test for arsenic poison in corpsesOrfila published on detection of poisons. Became known as “father of forensic toxicology”Galton published a book “Finger Prints”Bertillon developed system of anthropometry.Landsteiner discovered blood could be grouped into types.“A Study in Scarlet” a Sherlock Holmes novel was published which raised interest in forensics.Osborn published “Questioned Documents”.Locard began a rudimentary police laboratory which led to forming the Institute of Criminalistics.Jeffreys developed the first DNA profiling test.Vollmer created the oldest forensic lab in the U.S.FBI organized a forensics lab under directorship of President J. Edgar Hoover.FBI’s Forensic Science Research and Training Center opened.Elizabeth Short's murder or "The Black Dahlia"Sir Thomas Browne discovers adipocere, a wax-like substance formed by the body fats of corpses.Murder of Krystal BeslanowitchJohn Wayne Gacy: The Killer ClownWayne Bertram WilliamsPeriodi
The murder of Anna Palmer (solved through DNA evidence)
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