Tag: Orson Welles

• Orson Welles and the Black Museum.

  

    “This is Orson Welles speaking from London. The Black Museum, repository of death… Here, in this grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide where everyday objects, a piece of wire, a chemist’s flask, a silver shilling, all are touched by murder…”   In today’s internet age…

  CrimeScribe

  August 28, 2018

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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• Watching the detectives: The arrest of the inappropriately-named Daniel Good.

  

  With Good safely in his grave, the Metropolitan Police had to reconsider having only uniformed officers in their ranks. Had some officers been working out of uniform, they reasoned, they might have caught him far sooner. With that in mind a permanent cadre of non-uniformed officers. the Detective Department, was set up in August, 1842.…

  CrimeScribe

  April 25, 2018

  History, True Crime

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