Some mornings I learn something new about an interesting woman who was really a trailblazer in the field of forensic science and crime scene analysis, all the time being a grandmother and heiress. Another sister girl you all need to know about.
Frances Glessner Lee, also known as “the mother of forensic science” crafted a series of perfectly proportioned dioramas that turned children’s dollhouses into macabre nightmares– all in the name of science. Going into far more gory detail than your average Cluedo game, Lee’s miniature crime scenes were part of a department of legal medicine that she established at Harvard University in 1945. The department was called the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, named after the principles of forensic investigation, “to convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.”
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Fascinating and macabre all at the same time.
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