Forensic Science In The 13th Century

Forensic Science was officially developed in the 13th century. It began when a murder mystery in China led a man named Song Ci to compare multiple wounds on animals with different weapons to see which wound matched that of the victim. Song Ci was living in 1248, so he was not even close to the technology we have today in the field of Forensic Science. In fact, forensic science just kept growing and eventually, hundreds of years later; the first official forensic science lab was opened in Los Angeles in 1929. Crime scene investigators use forensic science to solve murders, trace chemicals in the victims, and also be able to identify of a victim. The evidence from a crime scene is picked up and taken back to a laboratory to be fully analyzed

Forensic Scientists have varying fields, such as that as lawyers and doctors. As mentioned, a forensic scientist will not always be one man in charge of investigating an entire crime. There are many types of forensic scientists, with varying tools and roles in a crime scene. For example, a crime scene investigator will go to the crime scene and make short and fast deductions with a few amounts of tests that can be performed in a matter of minutes. The tests that will need more analyzing and cannot be done at the actual crime scene will be sent back to the laboratory. A tool mark investigator is such as one as Song Ci, who will look at wounds or collateral damage to see what could’ve caused the crime and how intense the crime was. Finally, a forensic pathologist is the man or woman responsible for running all major lab tests and will be in charge of finding any evidence linking either the victim or suspect to the crime scene. A small example of this would be: a crime scene investigator will walk into a house that

Many of these are very complex pieces of machinery, however, technology does not always mean electricity. Some non electrical tools include tweezers, serology kit, used to deduce any bodily fluids including blood and urine, a hazard kit, used to identify any external hazards, such as carbon monoxide, sharp objects and such. Other technology includes many chemicals when combined in combinations with different pieces of the human body, including blood, tissue, and skin, will react and show signs of what the killer used to “hide.” For example, a few years ago in a small Texas town made a colossal change in the path of forensic science. After a man was suspected for poisoning multiple wealthy families to gain money from their will, a scientist had to place two sister’s ashes in a solution to liquefy them as much as possible. Then he added a solution that after a few hours would turn purple to indicate if poisoning truly happened. After the wait, both solutions were a deep purple, indicating lethal doses of arsenic, a common rat poison that in large doses can be lethal. These types of innovations are what give cities with a lot of crime hope to drop these