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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.
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The follow-up to one of my first posts.
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.
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