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By the age of 25 he was a teacher in the Pathology Department. In 1934 Simpson was made Supervisor of Medico-legal Post-Mortems and had his first case with Scotland Yard. In 1937 he was appointed Medico-legal advisor to Surrey Constabulary. In 1947 the student textbook Forensic Medicine, which Simpson wrote during the war, was published.
He has worked on famous cases such as the JonBenét Ramsey murder case, the Helle Crafts wood chipper murder (the first murder conviction in Connecticut without the victim's body, [8]) the O. J. Simpson and Laci Peterson cases, the 9/11 forensic investigation, the Washington, DC sniper shootings and reinvestigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
These victims’ cause of death would be investigated alongside the actual case itself and this would be the first time pathology would be used to help solve criminal cases. [10] Forensic pathology was first recognized in the United States by the American Board of Pathology in 1959 after toxicology and pathology had been used to solve thousands ...
Chao Tzee Cheng. Chao Tzee Cheng (Chinese: 赵自成; pinyin: Zhào Zìchéng; 22 September 1934 in Hong Kong – 21 February 2000 in New York City) was a renowned forensic pathologist in Singapore. Chao was respected for solving several notorious crimes in Singapore, and raised Singapore's level of professionalism in the area of forensics.
Werner Uri Spitz[1] (August 22, 1926 – April 14, 2024) was a German-American forensic pathologist who worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the investigations of the assassinations of president John F. Kennedy and reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He also testified at the trials of Casey Anthony and Phil Spector, the 1996 civil ...
Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury (16 May 1877 – 17 December 1947) was a British pathologist.His cases include Hawley Crippen, the Seddon case, the Major Armstrong poisoning, the "Brides in the Bath" murders by George Joseph Smith, the Crumbles murders, the Podmore case, the Sidney Harry Fox matricide, the Vera Page case, and the murder trials of Louis Voisin, Jean-Pierre Vaquier, Norman Thorne ...
Frances Gertrude McGill (November 18, 1882 – January 21, 1959) was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist.Nicknamed "the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and public fame, [1] McGill influenced the development of forensic pathology in Canadian police work and was internationally noted for her expertise in the subject.
Cyril Harrison Wecht (March 20, 1931 – May 13, 2024) was an American forensic pathologist. He was president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. [10] Wecht served as County Commissioner and Allegheny County ...