Beating The Devil's Game: A History Of Forensic Science And Criminal - Plot & Excerpts
He described a case of homicide in which the victim had been shot several times. The police had a suspect but could not confirm that his gun was the weapon used. Balthazard took photographs of the murder bullets and bullets fired from the suspect weapon, enlarged them, and found eighty-five similarities. The suspect was convicted and Balthazard confirmed for medicolegal societies the instinct of physicians before him who’d performed similar experiments, his pronouncement arriving just as the first North American forensic laboratory based on Locard’s model was established in Montreal, Quebec, with L’Institute de Medicine Legale et de Police Scientifique. Around the same time, New York City replaced its British-based coroner system with a medical examiner, requiring death investigators to acquire training in medicine and pathology. Another invention that assisted law enforcement during this decade was Albert Schneider’s vacuum apparatus for the collection of minute particles at a crime scene.
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