History of Forensics
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Updated: 1 Jun 2021
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Created byBryton Hobbs
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Jeffreys’ method was employed in a criminal case for the first timeGary Dotson was exonerated after ten years in jail thanks to DNA evidenceFirst FingerprintingThe Chinese used FingerprintsSir Francis Galton popularized a method for classifying fingerprintsDr. Henry Faulds published an article in Nature that predicted the forensic usefulness of fingerprintingVidocq founded a plainclothes investigative unit called the Brigade de la SûretéLocard rented a two-room attic in Lyon and transformed it into what’s considered the first forensic crime lab.Locard and the lab broke a major caseLee also used her own money to help start Harvard University’s Department of Legal MedicineSir Alec Jeffreys, a British geneticist, stumbled across the realization that DNA showed both similarities and differences between family members
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