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Hands of Martha Lydis

Germaine Krull :: Hands of Martha Lydis, 1930. | src Artnet

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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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The Greenville News, South Carolina, November 23, 1930

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As someone who is touch starved on the regular this quarantine is killing me

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cute date idea

standing (a safe distance of) six feet apart in the front yard, exchanging compliments very loudly

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concept: you are in my arms for the first time in months. the smell of your jacket is so familiar and your smile is so the same and i feel so happy to be with you, everything else is unimportant.

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The day we finally see each other, I’m never letting go of you

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you could go back in time and show a dinosaur a phone and they wouldnt even care

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this exchange between me and my sister about animal crossing reads like two comrades bleeding out on the battlefield

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Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide. 

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Model of the Moon at Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, ca. 1894

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Georges Méliès :: Man in The Moon, 1902

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over one hundred giggle bytes of silly images on my hilarious hard drive

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i love how telling somebody’s favorite flavor of sucker/lollipop is about who they are as a person. tag your favorite flavor mine is strawberry