Edward O. Heinrich
Edward Oscar Heinrich (1881-1953) was a forensic criminologist and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
Career[]
On October 11, 1923, the three DeAutremont brothers attempted, but failed to rob the mail car of a Southern Pacific train. Instead, they ended up blowing it up completely and murdering four people. The case was solved and the suspects apprehended through the pioneering work of Heinrich.[1]
On Dec. 19, 1925, John McCarty was gunned down by a disgruntled employee, Martin Colwell. The case was proved using a new forensic analysis developed by Heinrich utilizing "bullet fingerprints", microscopic evidence that the bullet which killed McCarty could only have been fired from Colwell's .38 revolver.[2]
In 1930, Heinrich was hired to investigate the Moormeister murder. He was unable to solve it, but did accept his payday.[3]
References[]
- ^ "How a botched train robbery led to the birth of modern American criminology", Berkeley News, UC Berkeley, April 30, 2019
- ^ "Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Vallejo murder led to historic trial", Vallejo Times Herald, December 6, 2020
- ^ "A Note on the History Behind the Novel" in City of Saints by Andrew hunt. Macmillian. 2012.
Further reading[]
- Winkler Dawson, Kate (2021). American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI. G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 978-0525539568.
External links[]
- American criminologists
- 1881 births
- 1953 deaths
- University of California, Berkeley faculty