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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Frances Glessner Lee

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week Madison Reyes joins in on the fun as we tell the story of Frances Glessner Lee a.k.a. the mother of forensics! We’ll be discussing her journey from housewife to homicide…well kind of.  Come see me on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com  Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807  Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now!  Sources:  https://www.deathindiorama.com/francesglessnerlee.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/home-where-corpse-frances-glessner-lees-miniature-dollhouse-crime-scenes-180965204/ https://harvardmagazine.com/2005/09/frances-glessner-lee-html https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/nutshells#:~:text='%20They%20were%20constructed%20in%20the,and%20canvas%20a%20crime%20scene https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/9/11/the-tiny-murder-scenes-of-forensic-scientist-frances-glessner-lee http://www.deathindiorama.com/about.html

Transcript

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0:07.0

You're listening to a morbid network podcast.

0:10.0

The show you're about to listen to may contain themes of violence, occult activities, strong language, and other sensitive material.

0:20.0

With an emphasis on cult's murder and other adult matters, listener discretion is advised.

0:24.2

On cult leader, I strive for telling stories

0:25.9

in a truthful matter, though press, media,

0:27.7

and other resources cannot always be verified.

0:29.9

Sources can be found in the show notes. Oh, I'm not. Hello and I am thrilled for this week's episode because this is a story unlike anything we have covered before.

1:14.6

The second I heard about this story, I was like, I got to know more about this.

1:18.2

If you were at our live show in Florida, you will definitely recognize this story as Madison touched on it

1:25.5

during our tour of the kitchen if you know you know but as soon as she told me

1:29.5

about Francis I was like I need to do a deep dive on this woman and how she became known as the

1:36.4

mother of forensic science so I thought who better to join us for this episode

1:40.4

than Miss Madison Reyes. Well, thank you for having me.

1:44.6

Hello?

1:45.6

Thanks for finding this story.

1:47.6

Oh my gosh, I'm actually so excited to hear your deep dive on it because I just literally touched the surface

1:55.8

with it and like read a couple paragraphs about this woman so I am very excited to

2:01.6

know more. Well I feel like always with our live shows especially

2:05.3

I always love all the little stories that we have but we don't obviously go that

2:10.0

in depth in our research of them and honestly, when you first told me about Francis Glusner Lee,

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