• lco@kbin.social
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      No, crime skeleton was a good one. That’s why it’s no longer on the force.

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    What the hell has happened to policing?! They used to invent crime skeletons. And now? Nothing.

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      Two things. People used to be insanely superstitious and many still are.

      Second, nowadays almost everyone has seen an X-Ray but they were still rare for the public in 1930. People only saw bones in cemeteries so it was associated with death. (When Röntgen took one of the first X-ray pictures of his wife’s hand, it’s said she fainted as it was like seeing her own corpse.)

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    I wonder if people actually fell for it or if it was too janky to fool them

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      Yes.

      Before fingerprinting the police had tried ways to extract confessions out of people, including a documented practice of standing outside a perp’s window in the dark and calling out that they were the ghost of the victim and why did you kill me?