Episode 35: Francis Glessner Lee

Great minds think alike! I did NOT share what my episode was on yet somehow, Natalia got a book on forensic sciences the SAME time I tell everyone about the Grandmother who started it all!

The short version: A grandmother with a taste for the macabre loves doing crafts.

Long version: A woman fought her whole life to accomplish standardized methods of practice from the ground up. Even though women were not allowed at Harvard, she paved her OWN way to the top of the medical departments. She was smart, passionate and worked to make sure police had the tools they needed on an investigation. Then, we discuss her dollhouse dioramas that depict actual scenes of death. They we created in the early 1900's but they are so detailed, so GOOD they are still on display and used in her seminars almost 100 years later.