Bruce Goldfarb's Blog
January 27, 2020
Wild Wilde Life
Frances Macbeth Glessner meets Oscar Wilde.
January 23, 2020
Flight of Fancy
The first commercial book published by a Glessner family member is a 1942 guide to military aircraft.
January 8, 2020
August Vollmer
More than any individual, Gus Vollmer is responsible for modern policing.
January 2, 2020
The First Police Car
America's first motorized police vehicle had a top speed of 18 mph on level ground.
January 1, 2020
Reddit AMA
Happy New Year /forensics! Thank you for joining my AMA. I am curator of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and author of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics, which will be released by Sourcebooks on February 4. Ask me anything!
December 16, 2019
A Model Citizen
Friends were concerned that Ernest Boruski killed himself several times.
December 11, 2019
The Killer’s Signature
The first murder conviction based on fingerprint evidence.
Little Buttercup
Frances Glessner Lee's prize-winning dairy cows produced milk with extraordinary thick cream.
December 8, 2019
The Woman “Cop”
A woman as a swork police office, as envisioned by a suffragette.
July 22, 2019
New: Investigator Notes
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