Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – ♀️ For International Women’s Day, Frances Glessner Lee, someone I jokingly describe as the ‘Real Life Miss Marple’ but who’s frequently called ‘The Mother of Forensic Science’. Born in 1878 to a wealthy industrialist she was home schooled, and whereas her brother was allowed to go on to study medicine at Harvard, she was not. It therefore wasn’t until her father died and she came into her inheritance at age 52 that she followed her forensic science dreams. She financed and created 20 incredible, tiny dollhouse crime scenes called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death c.1940s, 18 of which are still in use as a teaching tool by the police department in Baltimore. (They were the inspiration for miniature crime scenes on TV shows such as CSI and Father Brown). In 1931, Glessner Lee endowed the Harvard Department of Legal Medicine—the first such department in the country—and her gifts would later establish the George Burgess Magrath Library, a chair in legal medicine, and the Harvard Seminars in Homicide Investigation. She also endowed the Harvard Associates in Police Science, a national organization for the furtherance of forensic science; it has a division dedicated to her, called the Frances Glessner Lee Homicide School.
See www.deathindiorama.com for more, or read the book “18 Tiny Deaths’ by Bruce Goldfarb.
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