Although she was born into a wealthy and influential Chicago family and did not have to work, Frances Glessner Lee not only became the first female police captain in the U.S., she established the ...

“Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” explores the surprising intersection between craft and forensic science. Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962) ...

The Glessner House Museum is at 1800 S. Prairie St. (glessnerhouse.org) and the Clarke House Museum is a minute's walk away, at 1827 S. Indiana Ave. (clarkehousemuseum.org). Admis sion is $10 for one ...

Monday night in the coach house of the extraordinary Glessner House, William Tyre stood behind a podium and spoke to the hundred or so people who had come in from the cold and were sitting in chairs ...

Frances Glessner Lee is known to many as the "mother of forensic science" for her work training policemen in crime scene investigation in the... The Tiny, Murderous World Of Frances Glessner Lee How ...

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