Dollhouses — miniature toy structure usually used by children but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults.
Truly fascinating, isn't it? Dollhouses that commonly shows kindness, peace, and unity within the family household but how about these dollhouses can be used as a medium for analytical studies of unexplained death?
As time goes by forensic science develops new techniques to help understand real-life situations that may help the authorities especially the policeman to analyze and solve the mystery behind those kinds of stuff that can be used as evidence.
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are a series of nineteen (twenty were originally constructed).
intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), a pioneer in forensic science.
Glessner Lee used her inheritance to establish a department of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1936 and donated the first of the Nutshell Studies in 1946 for use in lectures on the subject of crime scene investigation. In 1966, the department was dissolved, and the dioramas went to the Maryland Medical Examiner's Office in Baltimore, Maryland, the U.S. where they are on permanent loan and still used for forensic seminars.
The dioramas are detailed representations of death scenes that are composites of actual court cases, created by Glessner Lee on a 1 inch to 1 foot (1:12) scale.
Each model cost about US$3,000–4,500 to create. She attended autopsies to ensure accuracy, and her attention to detail extended to having a wall calendar include the pages after the month of the incident, constructing openable windows, and wearing out-of-date clothing to obtain realistically worn fabric.
The dioramas show tawdry and, in many cases, disheveled living spaces very different from Glessner Lee's own background.
The dead include prostitutes and victims of domestic violence.
Glessner Lee called them the Nutshell Studies because the purpose of a forensic investigation is said to be to "convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell."
Students were instructed to study the scenes methodically—Glessner Lee suggested moving the eyes in a clockwise spiral—and draw conclusions from the visual evidence.
At conferences hosted by Glessner Lee, prominent crime-scene investigators were given 90 minutes to study each diorama.
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