1. Forensics Day 6 Please take out activity three and read over your “lab procedure with the person next to you. Have them do the same.

2. Can you perform these?
Where/when?

3. Book Club Background
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4. 8th Century BC
Chinese use fingerprints to identify authors and artists.

5. Chinese crime scene

6. 100 AD Rome
Roman attorney Quintilian use bloody palm prints from a crime scene to prove the innocence of a wrongly accused suspect

7. 1686
Marcello Malpighi described the characteristics of fingerprints

8. 1784
First recorded use of evidence matching used to convict a murderer, John Toms. A newspaper found with his pistol and additional fragments in his pocket were matched.

9. 1835
Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard use a bullet comparison to solve a murder. He traced a flaw in the bullet’s shape to the pistol of a suspect.

10. 1877
First article published in Scientific American suggesting that fingerprints might be used to identify a criminal.

11. 1880
Henry Faulds, a physician in Tokyo, used fingerprints to clear an innocent man and identify a burglar.

12. 1883
French criminologist, Alphonse Bertillon developed a system of body measurements to identify criminals.

13. 1889
Alexandre Lacassagne, University of Lyon, matched individual bullets to specific gun barrels.

14. 1891
Hans Gross, University of Austria, publishes first book on using physical evidence for solving crime

15. 1896
First fingerprint classification system published by Sir Edward Henry. He was later appointed the director of Scotland Yard (1901).

16. 1901
First official use of fingerprints in the United States (New York City Civil Service Commission).

17. 1905
President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

18. 1910
First crime lab established at the University of Lyons.

19. 1916
Detective Albert Schneider used a vacuum tool to collect trace evidence.
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20. 1921
First polygraph developed

21. 1924
First US Crime lab established in Los Angeles, California.

22. 1930
FBI sets up national fingerprint file for the United States.

23. 1950
America Association of Forensic Sciences (A.A.F.S.) is founded in Chicago.

24. 1974
Electron microscope technique developed for the detecting of gun shot residue (GSR).

25. 1977
The FBI introduces the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). This system allows the computerized scan of fingerprints.

26. 1984
Sir Alec Jeffreys develops DNA profiling.

27. 1986
The first use of DNA fingerprinting in the solving of a double murder in England.

28. DNA profiling leads to the conviction of Tommy Lee Andrews, a violent criminal, in Orlando, Florida.
1987

29. 1998
FBI database link law enforcement agencies throughout the United States.

30. Barry Scheck has help free several individuals falsely accused.

31. Although DNA evidence is compelling, less than 15% of cases are solved by using it. Basic other evidence including fingerprints is still the mainstay of evidence.

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