But the fact that her eyes were still open gave her family hope: Perhaps the last thing she saw-presumably the face of her murderer-was imprinted like a the negative of a photograph on her retinas, writes Lindsey Fitzharris for The Chirurgeon's Apprentice.Īccordingly, a photograph of the woman's retina's was taken, "at the suggestion of a local oculist, who told police that the retina would show the last object within her vision before she became unconscious," The Times reported.
"Image on her retina may show girl's slayer," reads a headline from a 1914 article in The Washington Times.Ī 20-year-old woman, Theresa Hollander, had been beaten to death and her body found in a cemetery.
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