Identification of criminals
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Eureka full of suckers- but who wouldn’t trust a Reverend (or the Delmars) ?
Fortune telling has always been big business – and though I can’t pretend to know if…
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Head of a criminal
Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician turned criminal anthropologist, published The Criminal Man in 1876 (available online…
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Rogues spotlight period fashions
One incredibly random but very fun element of the Detective Magazine and mug shots posted online…
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Finding bad guys- The Detective Magazine
The Bertillon System offered law enforcement a powerful tool in helping to identify experienced criminals—but how…
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Measuring heads to identify the bad guys-part 3
As previously mentioned, even with photography it could be difficult for law enforcement to know after…
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Trying to identify the bad guys – part 2
Per my previous post, trying to identify and catch bad guys was problematic before the turn…
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The beginning of the end of anonymous sprees
Before law enforcement developed standardized identification practices, criminals often changed their names like they changed their…
The Lower Levels 