More Cases of Forensic Optography

PATREON EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT FOR
SEASON 3 : EPISODE 46
THE LAST THING SARAH JANE ROBERTS SAW
JANUARY 15, 2024

This is a bonus content episode available exclusively for Patreon.

To accompany episode 46 about The Last Thing Sarah Jane Roberts Saw, which was about the unsolved murder of domestic servant Sarah Jane Roberts and the use of retinal optography to solve her case. I am going to tell you about some more cases where forensic retinal optography was deployed, and if it ever actually worked.

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Fritz Angerstein

Wikimedia.org

Villa from the Angerstein case

Wikimedia.org

Optogram from Khune's rabbit experiment

Aao.org

Khune's drawing of the optogram of an executed man

Smithsonianmag.com

• Episode Sources

  ARTICLES

  How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person’s Last Sight

  Optography

  Retinal Optography: Fact or Fiction?

  Rhodopsin

  Photographing The Eyes

  Walter Dew

  Petras murder still unsolved

  Petras murder still unsolved, continued pg.4

  Dead Men’s Eyes: A History of Optography

  MURDER IS STILL UNSOLVED

  Theresa “Tracy” Hollander

  Hollander murder case, defendant Anthony Petras and his wife, seated in a room

  Theresa Hollander murder case, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Petras standing on a sidewalk

  Fritz Angerstein

  1925: Fritz Angerstein, crime without criminal

  Fritz Heinrich Angerstein