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Forensic Timeline

Forensic Timeline. AD 66. Nero murders his wife and presents her head on a dish to his mistress. She identifies the head as Nero’s wife by two discolored front teeth. 1248. The Chinese book Hsi Duan Yu describes how to tell a drowning victim from one who has been strangled. 1514.

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Forensic Timeline

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  1. Forensic Timeline

  2. AD 66 Nero murders his wife and presents her head on a dish to his mistress. She identifies the head as Nero’s wife by two discolored front teeth.

  3. 1248 The Chinese book Hsi Duan Yu describes how to tell a drowning victim from one who has been strangled.

  4. 1514 The earliest known use of blood splatter evidence is a trial in London in which the defendant Richard Hunne, has been jailed for heresy then convicted of suicide, post mortem.

  5. 1850 For the first time, a murderer is convicted in the United States based on dental evidence

  6. 1880 Scotsman Henry Fauld, working in Tokyo, uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.

  7. 1889 Alexander Lacassagne publishes a text on matching bullets to individual gun barrels.

  8. 1904 Edmond Locard formulates his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.” A year later ~ The FBI is established.

  9. 1921 The first lie detector is built by John Larson, a University of California medical student.

  10. 1977 A limited computerized scanning mechanism is first used to develop a database in forensic science by the FBI’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS).

  11. 1984 Professor Alec Jefferies discovers that each human being has unique DNA, except in the case of identical twins.

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