History of Forensic Science

Question 1

1st attempted criminal profiling as result of Ripper’s savage modus operandi 1888

Answer 1

Scotland Yard

Question 2

first documented case of comparing bullets to catch offender 1835

Answer 2

former Bow Street Runner employed by Scotland Yard

Question 3

first scientific system of personal identification = Anthropometry

Answer 3

Alphonse Bertillon

Question 4

briton working and living in british india; signed by fingerprint bc “impossible to deny and forge”

Answer 4

William Herschel

Question 5

fingerprints are unique = Identification; published an illustrated anatomy book - “the arrangement of skin ridges is never duplicated in 2 persons” 1788

Answer 5

Dr. Nathaniel Grew

Question 6

differences and unique characteristics of hair > id 1879

Answer 6

Rudolph Virchow

Question 7

erasable fingerprint? experimented on volunteers by use of pumice stone, sand paper, and acids > skin growth

Answer 7

Henry Faulds

Question 8

following the valentines day massacre in1929, who founded the scientific crime detection laboratory at northwestern university in evaston, illinois; first to use comparison microscope to determine if a bullet was fired from a specific gun

Answer 8

Calvin Goddard

Question 9

“everything leaves a trace” > ____’s Exchange Principle; L’enquete criminelle at les methods scientifique in 1904 - collection and recovery backbone

Answer 9

Edmond Locard

Question 10

found a flaw in the bullet which led back to original bullet mold 1835

Answer 10

Henry Goddard

Question 11

Who realized that arsenious oxide can be transformed to arsenious acid, and when combined w/ zinc, produced ARSINE?… ARSENIC POISONING 1755

Answer 11

Karle Scheele

Question 12

hemoglobin can oxidize hydrogen peroxide = foam; inadvertently discovered the 1st presumptive test for the presence of blood 1863

Answer 12

Christian Schonbein

Question 13

where was the first american police crime lab

Answer 13

Los Angeles California

Question 14

Medical chemistry at the Univ. of Paris; Father of Toxicology in 1813 after publishing Traite de Poisons; credited as the first to use a microscope to assess blood and semen stains

Answer 14

Professor Mathieu Orfila

Question 15

Who was credited to attempt to differentiate natural death to death w/ criminal intent?

Answer 15

Ancient Chinese

Question 16

What case made microscopic comparison of bullets popular?

Answer 16

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 17

Arch, Loop, and Whorl > 8 types (what?)

Answer 17

Sir Francis Galton

Question 18

england’s most notorious serial killer which cause the use of crime scene photography to detect clues and criminal profiling 1888

Answer 18

Jack the Ripper