There were several creations and additions to the field of Crime Scene Analysis. Many people and changes were involved.
 | It started around 1609 when François Demelle of France published the first treatise on systematic document examination. Soon after in 1686, Marcello Malpighi, who was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, documented the different characteristics of fingerprints. It had taken a while, but the next contribution wasn’t made until 1810, when the Germans first recorded the use of question document analysis. This was a chemical test for a certain type of ink dye done to a document known as the Konigin Hanschritt. |
Three years later in 1813, a Spanish professor named Mathieu Orfila became known as the father of modern day toxicology for papers he had published on chemical content of blood. He is also thought to be one of the firsts to use a microscope to detect and to tell the difference between blood and semen stains. |  |
  | In 1828, William Nichol invents the Polarizing Light Microscope. And by 1835, Henry Goddard did the first bullet comparison to solve a murder case. Around 1854, two English doctors are said to have developed dry plate photography. Their names were Frederick Scott Archer and Gustave Le Gray. A few years later in 1856, a British officer named Sir William Herschel uses fingerprints in order to verify documents. By 1879, Rudolph Virchow becomes the first to study hair samples. Similarly, around 1889, Alexander Lacassagne tried to match bullets with possible barrels that they were shot out of. Soon, in 1896, Sir Edward Richard Henry was able to develop the system for fingerprint classification. |
Then in 1900, Karl Landstiener discovered the different blood types and developed another system that acted as a test in order to differentiate between them. Around the 1990’s, O.W. Wilson bring Crime Scene Analysis into America and other Institutes such as MapInfo and ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) introduced crime-mapping applications available for average crime analyst, technology and cost wise. In 1906, August Vollmer developed the basic system of a basic records system to organize police reports. He also created patrol district, made police report reviews, and mapped out crime locations. But it wasn’t until 1945 that Frank Linquist developed a test for detecting semen.
Then in 1974, J.E. Wessle, P.F. Jones, Q.Y. Kwan, R.S. Nesbittand, and E.J. Rattin discover a method in which to detect gunshot residue. And in 1984, Sir Alec Jefferys continues fingerprinting and uses it for the first time in a forensic case of 1988. During the 1990’s, the profession was expanded into the establishment of the International Association of Crime Analysts. By 1994, the New York City Police Department created the “Comstat” system, which was a process in that depended a lot on crime scene mapping. Three years later, after the Comstat system, the first National Institute of Justice Crime Mapping Research was established.
Around the 21st century however, several factors have affected the development of this profession. Those factors include funding, certifications, training and education, technology, crime trends, and terrorist attacks/threats. There were only a few additions. In 2003, another DNA identifier was created by James Mcnenny. By 2005, a crime scene fence post was created by Hungkun James Chang.
