The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

I n the 1940s, Frances Glessner Lee, a Chicago heiress to the International Harvester fortune, built the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, composite crime scene models recreated on a one-inch-to-one-foot scale. These macabre dioramas were purpose-built to be used as police training tools to help crime scene investigators learn the art and science of detailed forensics-based detection.

This project will illuminate the Nutshells and their place in the history of forensic science.

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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