If Emily Beilby Kaye has a legacy, it is this: Rubber gloves. Thanks to her, investigators started wearing them regularly while handling evidence at crime scenes.
Bernard Spilsbury, the British celebrity pathologist, came up with the idea as he moved from room to room in a seaside bungalow that held Kaye's remains —blood, pieces of charred bone, chunks of flesh, congealed fat in a tureen, and sections of body, but no head.
As Spilsbury scanned the grisly scene, he noticed a police officer picking up pieces with his bare hands and dumping them into a container.
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