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Special blood powder...


And other methods for determining where and how a crime was committed. Pretty prophetic considering when this movie was made.

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Luminol was in use by the 1930s and does indeed cause blood to show up blue. Leroy was right--it does not wash off. Investigators took luminol to Lizzie Borden's house and got startling results over 100 years later!

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