We are Forensic Science People

9/10/26 we are forensic science ppl we carry the evidence we fight for justice and we honor the victims

Mathieu Orfila

Considered the father of forensic toxicology, he was a Spanish chemist known for his work in identifying poisons and their effects on the human body.

Alphonse Bertillion

Developed the 1st scientific system of personal identification

Francis Gilton

Developed a system to study and classify fingerprints

Karl Landstein

Discovered that blood cells can be grouped into different categories based on the antigens they contain

Leon Lattes

Developed a system of determining the blood group by using a dried blood stain. His system is still used in today’s investigation.

Calvin Goddard

U.S Army who developed a system of identifying bullets based on land and grooves created by the weapon it was fired from

Albert S. Osborn

Developed the basic strategy and principles for the examination of document. Also wrote Questioned Documents which is still a primary reference used in the courtroom today.

Walter McCrone

A well-known microscopist. He advocated the use of microscopes, particularly for forensic cases. He remained an expert in the field throughout his career.

Hans Gross

the 1st manual for applying scientific knowledge to criminal investigations.
Hans Gross was a public prosecutor and judge in Graz, Austria.
He is considered by many to be the father of criminalistics.
Authored a book titled Handbuch for Untersuchungsrichteral system der kriminalistik

Edmond Locard

Used Hans Gross principles to develop the 1st crime scene labatory.
He started a lab in 2 attic rooms of a police department in Lyon, France.
Eventually, he became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyon.
This crime scene became the leading international center of the study & research of forensic science

J. Edgar Hoover

Directed the FBI’s organization of a national forensic science labatory in 1932. The FBI Lab is now the world’s largest crime scene lab.

August Vollmer

A police chief from Berkley, California that created the 1st forensic labortory in the U.S. This lab was created at the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dr. Alec Jefferys

Dr. Jefferys developed the concept of DNA profiling & DNA fingerprinting.
He is a well known geneticist and a professor at the University of Leicester in England.
His techniques were discovered while studying x-ray images of a DNA stand.
His techniques are used in crime labs around the world to identify criminals and establish paternity.

Clea Koff

Known as “the bone woman.”
She became famous for her work in the field of forensic anthropology.
She was born in Britain and worked on her master’s degree at the University of Arizona and the University of Nebraska.
In 2005, Koff founded “the missing persons identification resource center which is located in Los Angeles and linked families with unknown victims of crimes & other tragedies.

William Bass

Dr. Bass is a forensic anthropologist who specializes in human osteology & decomposition.
He founded ‘the body farm’ which is a facility at the University of Tennessee that studies decaying human remains.