Look at this Little Thing!

frankensteinsfunhouse:

Before forensics, DNA, and CSI we had dollhouses – an unimaginable collection of miniature crime scenes, known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Created in the 1930s and 1940s by a crime-fighting millionaire heiress grandmother Frances Glessner, the Nutshells helped homicide detectives hone their investigative skills. Despite all the advances in forensics, the Nutshells are still used today to train detectives.

Of Dolls And Murder

The follow-up to one of my first posts.

scotdevine:

Strange, miniature CSI-style entertainment’s what you get in ‘Dollhouse crime scenes’. Narrated by John Waters, it offers a detached, yet almost more shocking look at murder.