Death masks, acid baths, and letters from Jack the Ripper. The Met Police’s hidden museum of crime opens to the public this October.
A new exhibition at the Museum of London reveals a bunch of stuff previously hidden from public view at Scotland Yard.
The Crime Museum was established in the mid-1870s as a way of teaching detectives how to be detectives. The collection includes evidence, murder weapons, and personal belongings of both criminal and victim. But it's also a record of how policing has changed over the last 140 years.
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This is a "murder bag" – a forensics kit used by detectives attending crime scenes.
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And these are the ropes that hanged London’s most notorious criminals.
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But it's not as grisly as you think it's going to be. Sure, there are death masks like this one of Daniel Good.
Good was executed outside Newgate prison in 1842 for the murder of his wife, Jane Jones.
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