8127/frame/fm

 
5:00 PM
, 
 
Monday afternoon
 
Cop8957
:
You’ll be pleased to know that we apprehended, tried, and convicted
your suspect. His sentence is a lifetime ban on practicing the pro-
fession of criminalistics.
 
Criminalist976
: Legitimately, at least.
 
Cop8957
:
Now what do we do with your colleagues. I’m getting really tired
of listening to them babble about DNA and Firearms.
 
Criminalist976
: I guess that will just have to wait until … the next episode of
 
FuturCrim
.
 
References
Davies, G., 
 
Forensic Science
, American Chemical Society, 1986.
Stoney, D. A., Criminalistics in the new millennium, 
 
The CACNews
, 1st quarter, 2000.
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Appendix A
 
Forensic Science Timeline
B
.
C
.
E
.
Evidence of fingerprints in early paintings and rock carvings of
prehistoric humans.
A
.
D
. 700s
Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and
clay sculpture, but without any formal classification system.
ca. 1000
Quintilian, an attorney in the Roman courts, showed that bloody
palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mother’s
murder.
1248
A Chinese book, 
 
Hsi Duan Yu
(the washing away of wrongs),
contains a description of how to distinguish drowning from stran-
gulation. This was the first recorded application of medical
knowledge to the solution of crime.
1609
The first treatise on systematic document examination was pub-
lished by François Demelle of France.
1686