2014/04/29
The Hartford Gourant, April 29, 2014: Unraveling Crimes, Henry Lee Transformed Art Of Forensic Science.
Long before he became an internationally known forensic scientist sought out by the likes of the Kennedys and O.J. Simpson, Henry Lee began his career in a converted bathroom at the Bethany state police barracks.
Virtually a one-man operation with a microscope and some camera equipment to analyze black and white photographs, Lee set about to keep a promise he made to Gov. Ella Grasso the day she officially made him a state employee in 1979 — to build the best forensic laboratory in the country.
Now nearly 35 years later Lee is retired from state service but still working on examining evidence from criminal cases from around the country at the forensic institute at the University of New Haven that bears his name. more