FILM 1301: OF DOLLS AND MURDER
Of Dolls and Murder is a documentary film about a collection of
dollhouse crime scenes and
society's collective fascination with death. It was released in April 2012.
In the 1930s and 1940s, heiress Frances
Glessner Lee, created dollhouse crime scenes to help train detectives
in the art of reading crime scenes. The dollhouses, known as The Nutshell
Studies of Unexplained Death, are on permanent loan to the Maryland Medical
Examiner's Office in Baltimore,
and are not open to the public.
The film follows how these
intricate dioramas are still used to train homicide detectives, despite all the
technological advances in death investigation. The dioramas also provided
inspiration for The Miniature
Killer, a recurring villain in season seven of CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation. The villain's modus operandi is to leave
behind accurate dioramas of her crime scenes.
In a further exploration of morbid
curiosity, the filmmakers also shadow a Baltimore
homicide detective, and visit The Body Farm, a famous forensic
anthropology site in Tennessee
where researchers study the decay of bodies.
From the iconic CSI television show
to the Body Farm and criminally minded college students, legendary filmmaker
and true crime aficionado, John Waters narrates the tiny world of big time
murder.
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