Is It Harder To Write Crime Fiction Today? Notes:
Do modern forensic science and police investigative techniques make creating compelling crime fiction more difficult? Are there simply too many balls to keep in the air? Too much to consider? Or is now little different from then?
The Past, the present, and the future
Forensic Science timeline--a fairly new discipline
Basic Science, then Medicine, finally forensic science
Personal IDVisual
Bertillon
West Case
Facial recognition
Behavioral Profiling
Vucetich-the Rojas case
Stella Nickell Case
Touch DNA
Touch Toxicology
From arsenic to GC/MS
Blood TypingABO can exclude but not ID
DNANuclear
Mitochondrial
Familial-Grim Sleeper case
Phenotypic Analysis
Cell phones, computers, emails, texts, VMs
LINKS:
Forensic Science Timeline: http://www.dplylemd.com/articles/forensic-science-timeline.html
History of Fingerprints: http://onin.com/fp/fphistory.html
Brief History of Poisons and Forensic Toxicology: https://www.okorieokorocha.com/poisons-and-forensic-toxicology/
History of Forensic Ballistics: https://ifflab.org/the-history-of-forensic-ballistics-ballistic-fingerprinting/
FORENSICS FOR DUMMIES: http://www.dplylemd.com/book-details/forensics-for-dummies.html
HOWDUNNIT:FORENSICS: http://www.dplylemd.com/book-details/howdunnit-forensics.html
Stella Nickell Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Nickell
DNA Profiling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
Mitochondrial DNA: http://www.dplylemd.com/articles/mitochondrial-dna.html
Familial DNA: http://www.dnaforensics.com/familialsearches.aspx
Grim Sleeper/Lonnie Franklin case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper
Is DNA Phenotyping Accurate: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-accurately-can-scientists-reconstruct-persons-face-from-dna-180968951/
DNA Phenotyping Examples: https://snapshot.parabon-nanolabs.com/examples
Bertillon and the West Brothers: http://www.nleomf.org/museum/news/newsletters/online-insider/november-2011/bertillon-system-criminal-identification.html