The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death I n the 1940s, Frances
Glessner Lee, a Chicago heiress to the International Harvester
fortune, built the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death,
composite crime scene models recreated on a one-inch-to-one-foot
scale. These macabre dioramas were purpose-built to be used as
police training tools to help crime scene investigators learn
the art and science of detailed forensics-based detection. This
project will illuminate the Nutshells and their place in the
history of forensic science. As the investigator, you must bear
in mind that there is a two-fold responsibilityto clear the
innocent as well as expose the guilty. Seek only the factsFind
the truth in a Nutshell.