Criminal Science and Phrenology

This case also ties into the strange and pretty fascinating world of victorian criminal science, most intriguingly a phrenology. What was phrenology and how did it connect this case? Well, phrenology was a discipline that emerged in the late eighteenth y. A german doctor called gaul g l was the first person to describe the principles. And he developed this into an entire system which allowed you to analyze a person's personality and their intellectual aptitudes according to the shapes of their skull.