The “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” is a series of 20 dollhouse-style dioramas created by an American Forensic scientist, Frances Glessner Lee. The detailed constructions of scale 1 inch to 1 foot, presented death scenes of real-life court cases. They are built as a training tool for the investigators because
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Through out the 1940s and 1950s, Frances Glessner Lee, who was a pioneer in forensic science, constructed a series of nineteen doll house styled crime scene models that were one inch to one foot scale. These models were inspired by other homicide, suicide, and accidental death cases. At the time,
What if the only way that you could find a criminal was by not only relying on the sketch artist to accurately depict the suspect but having to rely on the description from the witness or victim being accurate as well? To many, this sounds very unreliable and a waste
A recent push for the use of technology has enabled a crossover between art and crime. A FaceSketchID system has been created at Michigan State University that scans forensic sketches and juxtaposes them with current mug shots in the police database. It is said to become an asset in cases