Wilfrid Derome was a forensic scientist known as the founder of the first forensic science laboratory in North America, founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
12 Facts About Wilfrid Derome
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Dr Derome was born in Napierville, Canada and studied at the College of Montreal, Sainte-Marie College, and Joliette Seminary, where he received the Bachelor of Arts in 1898.
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Wilfrid Derome was a member of the International Association for Identification and the Societe de medecine legale de France.
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Wilfrid Derome died from uremia in Montreal on 24 November 1931.
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In 1910, Dr Wilfrid Derome was appointed Professor of Legal Medicine and Toxicology at the University of Montreal and became head of the Laboratory of Notre Dame Hospital.
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Wilfrid Derome founded, in June 1914, the first governmental forensic science laboratory in North America in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Wilfrid Derome acted as the Director of the lab since his death in 1931 at the age of 54.
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Wilfrid Derome testified as Medical Expert and Ballistic Expert to the Crown in many legal cases during his career.
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In 1926, Dr Wilfrid Derome invented the microspherometer which can reveal the marks left on the surface of bullets fired from a firearm for the purpose of identification.
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In 1929 and 1932, the Derome laboratory was visited by J Edgar Hoover, from the FBI, in order to plan the foundation of the FBI laboratory.
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Wilfrid Derome retained dozens of human remains from the bodies of murder victims that he attended to in his role as the province's leading forensic scientist, which included removing tattoos from the body of a murdered woman named Mildred Brown.
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Wilfrid Derome kept parts of men and women's reproductive systems, internal and external organs, and fetuses at varying stages of development.