The Grisly 1924 Crime That Led to the Forensic “Murder Bag”

Image caption: A forensic toolkit. Image credit: Monty Rakusen / DigitalVision / Getty Images. Article by April Snellings. Mental Floss – June 17, 2024.

The portable forensics kits that modern investigators use were inspired by bare hands at the scene of a horrific murder that occurred 100 years ago.

In the United States, the term murder bag has been used to describe a collection of tools a killer might use to stalk, subdue, and attack a victim. In the UK, though, the term has a very different connotation […]

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