Murder in Miniature: The Mother of Forensics, Frances Glessner Lee

Minda & Jenna sit down with the incredible Bruce Goldfarb, author of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics and the executive assistant to the OCME of Baltimore, MA.  Bruce tell us about Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) who crafted her extraordinary “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”—exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes—to train homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.” These dollhouse-sized dioramas of true crimes, created in the first half of the 20th century and still used in forensic training today, helped to revolutionize the emerging field of homicide investigation. - via https://americanart.si.edu. Her story is nothing short of incredible, a woman in as man’s world, inventing an entire new method to solve crime during a time when women’s voices were seldom heard.