• lco
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      1011 months ago

      No, crime skeleton was a good one. That’s why it’s no longer on the force.

  • @nothing@lemm.ee
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    2011 months ago

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

    • @SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      1711 months ago

      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.)

      • @boringbisexual@lib.lgbt
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        611 months ago

        I’m not superstitious, but if I woke up in a dark room with a skeleton with glowing red eyes telling me to confess my sins…

        Maybe add a fog machine and voice distortion.

        • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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          111 months ago

          Have the skeleton be rigged by Amalgamated Dynamics and I’ll confess to every single thing

  • Jim
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    1011 months ago

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

    • lco
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      611 months ago

      Iirc, it was never actually used

    • @SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      611 months ago

      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?