Frances Glessner Lee and the birth of forensic science
Forensic science is now baked into the way we solve crimes, and the way we think about crimes being solved. This century there have been thirty four seasons of CSI alone, and the process of crime scene investigation is familiar to anyone who has turned on a television in the last twenty years. But it is a relatively new method and it comes from unusual origins. Frances Glessner Lee began working in what was known in "legal science" in the 1930s and by the end of her life she would have changed the world of forensics forever. Former paramedic and forensic examiner Bruce Goldfarb has written a book about her work titled 18 Tiny Deaths; the Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee.