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dollhouse attic

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Juliana. Brooklyn/PA/VA
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Writing on here after so long feels like I’m back from the dead or something. I haven posted any life snippets in forever. but i thought this was the best place to share that I got to take some film pictures the other day while I was leaving frankenmuth. It was snowing, and there was an old wooden schoolhouse sleeping in a field off the road. I can’t wait to see her when I get the film back! I think snowy weather might be my favorite film weather. Also shoutout to my husband for always pulling over when I see something that I think I’ll die from if I don’t get it on camera

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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress, revolutionized the study of forensics and crime scene investigation. She believed that crimes could be solved by a detailed analysis of visual and material evidence.

She used newspaper reports, and interviews with policemen and morgue workers to create miniture crime scenes(which were extremely detailed) such as suicides, accidental deaths, accidents as homicides and homicide, potentially, as suicides. Of the twenty she made, eighteen have survived and of those eighteen, eleven show violent deaths of women. Everything from the wallpaper to the presence of alcohol and drugs was added to the miniture crime scenes.

This helped investigators train to identify crimes and clues found at crime scenes and left a big mark on the field as we know it today. They were also used in Harvard Associates in Police Science (HAPS) seminars. She called them nutshell cases, a name that was inspired by a detective who told her this:

As the investigator, you must bear in mind that there is a two-fold responsibility—to clear the innocent as well as expose the guilty. Seek only the facts—Find the truth in a Nutshell.

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