Forensics Unit 2 - Contributors & Acronyms

Mathieu Orfila

Father of forensic toxicology. “All substances are poisons”

Alphonse Bertillon

Father of Anthropometry. Made the Bertillon system to distinguish people off of a variety of measurements.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wrote Sherlock Holmes

Francis Galton

Father of fingerprinting

Leone Lattes

Father of Bloodstain Identification

Albert Osborn

Father of Document Examination

Edmond Locard

Father of forensic science. Lockard’s Exchange Principle. Opened first EVER crime lab, located in France.

Calvin Goddard

Father of Ballistics

J. Edgar Hoover

Father of the FBI and Crime Lab. Made the first Crime Lab in the US.

Walter McCrone

Father of Microscopic Forensics

Sir Alec Jeffreys

Father of DNA Analysis

VICAP

Violent criminal apprehension program

UNSUB

UNknown SUBject

TOD

Time of Death

TSA

Transportation Security Administration

SEM

scanning electron microscope

QD

questioned documents

POV

point of view

PCR

polymerase chain reaction

PMI

post-mortem interval

PERK

Physical Evidence Recovery Kit

NGRI

not guilty by reason of insanity

NCAVC

National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime

NIBIN

national integrated ballistics information network

MO

modus operandi

ME

medical examiner

Interpol

International Criminal Police Organization

HITS

Homicide Investigation Tracking System

GSR

gunshot residue

GC

gas chromatography

FOS

first on scene

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

DOJ

dept. of justice

DOC

Department of Corrections

DOA

dead on arrival

DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid

DEA

drug enforcement agency

DB

dead body

DA

district attorney

CSI

crime scene investigation

CODIS

Combined DNA index system

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

BOLO

be on the look out

B & E

breaking and entering

BAC

Blood alcohol concentration

APB

All Points Bulletin

ALS

Alternate Light Source

AFIS

Automated Fingerprint Identification System

AAFS

American Academy of Forensic Science

Lockard’s Exchange Principle

Every touch leaves a trace.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Devised the first test for detecting arsenic in corpses

Christian Friedrich Schonbein

First presumptive test for blood.

Karl Landsteiner

Discovered ABO Blood Typing

Forensic Scientists

Identify and/or compare physical evidence through chemical, physical, and instrumental analysis.

Criminologists

Study criminal and behavioral psychology to aid in criminal investigations

Medical Examiners

Perform autopsies to identify the causes and manners of death

Coroners

Transport corpses from crime scene to morgue; some aid in death investigations

Prosecutors

Innitiate arrests, indictments, and prosecutions of criminals

Trace Evidence

Hair, fiber, glass, paint, impressions, etc.

Latent prints

Fingerprints

Forensic Biology

Serology / DNA

Toxicology

Blood, alchohol, poisons

Controlled substance

Drugs

Questioned Documents

Handwriting & Typescripts

Ballistic Firearms

Guns & ammunition

Forensic Antrhopology

Skeletal remains

Forensic Entomology

Insects ; Insects tell the time of death