In 1915, Salt Lake City detectives tried to find out who murdered Olivia Cooper by resorting to the most advanced scientific method then available — photographing her eyes.
It was believed that Cooper, who suffered a fractured skull during the midnight robbery of a downtown confectionery, had gotten a good look at her killer.
We’re talking cutting-edge technology, people. Detectives had learned that taking pictures of human retinas reportedly had been done successfully (not) in Europe.
The polic...
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