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vinny9698

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Sun Aug 28, 2016, 01:09 PM Aug 2016

The founder of CSI was a fictional character. Yes, fictional.

When I start a conversation about this subject, the look I get are priceless. And then when I tell them the answer they say "Of course"
Sherlock Holmes is the founder of our current CSI. The first lab was in a janitor's closet, so I guess that makes a janitor the first CSI lab tech.
http://www.pbs.org/program/sherlock-changed-world/

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The founder of CSI was a fictional character. Yes, fictional. (Original Post) vinny9698 Aug 2016 OP
Save a click - it's Sherlock Holmes jberryhill Aug 2016 #1
So technically the founder of modern crime forensics was Arthur Conan Doyle Blue_Tires Aug 2016 #2
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