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Miniature crime scenes come under police microscope

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work an heiress who recreates in miniature crime scenes to the smallest detail has something to teach detectives today?

Frances Glessner Lee

giant mounted on the stage of world in miniature, died nearly 50 years. Lee has built a collection of what he calls "word studies", each a small, highly accurate recreation of a room where a murder had been committed.

Each offered a little victim, or the murder weapon morning was incorporated or packaged. The many components of each diorama profusely dark were mostly sentenced and made from real crime stories.

Lee and his words have a research context. Was equipped with a complete, brand new in the department of Harvard Medical School of Forensic Medicine. The scene was invented served as a center of activity fascinating.

authorities know that Lee made his tests from scratch, wallpaper sliced, glass, wood, paint and other materials. They know who financed the whole operation. They know they enlisted the help of a carpenter, an interior design company money, and a company that makes doll houses. They know that she conspired with a large number of police officers, which implicitly with luxury foods and strong drink. Nobody has fully discovered his motive.

Lee, heir to a wealthy family in the manufacture of agricultural equipment in Chicago, the department chose the first (and only) leader - a good doctor, a classmate of his brother at Harvard, he had kept in mind during the decades leading up to their heritage.

Several times a year, would be invited to fund officers and police and medical examiners in the United States, 30 or 40 at a time, to go to his seminar at Harvard on research of homicide. Each review and discuss the miniature rooms and dine together in all its glory in one of the best hotels in Boston. Lee bought the hotel, including all cost of China for the exclusive use of these dinners.

National Library of Medicine has several photos of Botz is online. A documentary film, wrists and murder, is scheduled for this summer, with cooling narration by John Waters.

Lee style incredibly detailed miniature recreations of the crime scene never became a standard tool for investigators to the scene. But his spirit lives on. There is now a craze for the patterns of police crime incident software, Polyflex forensic mannequins and mini-jack tube kits crime scene reconstruction.


Harvard Department of Legal Medicine did not long survive the death of its founder and funder. Its crown jewels, small rooms, went south and now resides in the coroner's office of Maryland in Baltimore.


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