by | | French crime history
One of my favourite crime history heroes is Alphonse Bertillon, the French criminologist who began as a humble clerk and ended up developing a system for identifying criminals that was used worldwide. Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris on 22 April 1853. Despite his...
by | | French crime history
Dubbed the father of crime detection, and the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, French criminal-turned-thief-taker, Eugène-François Vidocq established the world’s first police detective department in Paris, in 1812. He is alleged to have pioneered many investigative...
by | | French crime history
On the night of 18 June 1897, 13-year-old shepherd Pierre Laurent was returning home from the local fruit market to his village, which was near Lyon, when he was murdered and sexually assaulted. His mutilated body was discovered by local residents the following day....
by | | Crime scene investigation
In 1892, the double murder of two children in Argentina was the first ever successful investigation of a homicide using fingerprinting. On 29 June 1892, in the slums of Neocochea, a city in the south-east of Argentina in the province of Buenos Aires, Ponciano...
