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1y ago

CRIME SKELETON

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Tom Scott tested it out
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Acab includes the crime skeleton
- No, crime skeleton was a good one. That's why it's no longer on the force.

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

This should work

I wonder if people actually fell for it or if it was too janky to fool them
- Iirc, it was never actually used

I saw a movie once where they made the guy think he had died and gone to hell so he would confess to the devil. Similar logic here, maybe?
- 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?

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