Saturday, May 3, 2008

"The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis Meeting"

Sherlock Holmes fans -- The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis, the city's oldest Sherlock Holmes society, will meet at the Indiana Medical History Museum on Saturday afternoon, May 3 and you are welcome to join them. Please contact the Society to reserve your chair as this event is limited to those registered through it. Please let them know you heard about this through the museum.

For more information: http://www.illustriousclients.org/

Where: Indiana Medical History Museum May 3, 2008

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 3:00 pm

"Unearthing Belle: Exposing the World's Most Prolific Female Serial Killer."

Speaker: Andrea Simmons, MS, JD

In 1908, LaPorte County resident Belle Gunness was found dead in her burned out house, along with the remains of her three children. In the investigation that followed, police discovered the bodies and dismembered remains of multiple victims buried on Belle's farm.Questions have always surrounded the identification of Belle's body, which lacked a head. Did she fake her death, substituting a female victim for herself? Did she have an accomplice? Fearing the discovery of her crimes, did she skip town and live out her remaining days in California? For the first time, this famous case has been reopened by actual forensic scientists. Andrea Simmons, attorney and forensic anthropology graduate student at the University of Indianapolis, will report some of her findings on April 2 at the Indiana Medical History Museum. She will describe her scrutiny of the historical documents and her 2007 exhumation and re-analysis of the body presumed to be Belle’s.

Where: Indiana Medical History Museum April 2, 2008 3:00 pm

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sunday, March 2, 2008 through April 2, 2008

Exhibit

Talking Heads: Coaxing Information from the Skull
A new exhibit focusing on examinations of the skull in medicine and anthropology, from obsolete notions to cutting edge research using novel technologies to gain new knowledge. The exhibit will also give examples of the skull in art and popular culture.

The opening program will feature Dr. Richard Ward, Professor of Anthropology and Dentistry at IUPUI, who will speak at 4:00 on Sunday March 2 about the use of 3D laser photography to diagnose fetal alcohol syndrome.

The exhibit will run from March 2 to April 2.

Where: Indiana Medical History Museum