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Frances Glessner Lee - The Mother of Forensic Science

Kit and Sherlock Season 3 Episode 22

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Without a medical degree, Frances, at the age of 53, changed the course of crime scene investigation and forensic pathology in the United States.

She was a pioneer in standardizing the methods used in assessing clues of a crime, training police investigators for decades and creating what we now know as Homicide Detectives.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Frances and how she contributed to improving a very dysfunctional process of "death investigation" of the early 20th century.

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