All the true crime girlies know you shouldn't contaminate a crime scene—but what you probably didn't know is that the procedures we see on every crime show weren't common until the 1940s? Before then, bodies were handled by coroners with no medical training and evidence with un-gloved hands.

Today, we know better, and it's all thanks to one socialite and doll-house maker, Frances Glessner Lee.

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