Off the 'Cuff

Signed in blood. Makes your blood boil. Captain Blood. Out for blood. Blood letting. Blood oath. Fight to first blood. Blue blood. Blood infection. In cold blood. Someone’s flesh and blood. The Blood of Eden. Blood is thicker than water. New blood. Blood and guts. Red blooded American. Blood transfusion. Bad blood. Blood on their [...]

Checking YouTube last week, we came across this little jem. It’s a music video filmed in the building that later became our own Police Museum. The band, Images in Vogue, used the autopsy space, the morgue and the courtroom for the video. The courtroom in the video is now our main gallery… only a few [...]

This morning, the RCMP announced that an additional body part has washed ashore on the edge of the Straight of Georgia; this time, though, it’s a hand. (News story is available here.) An interactive map of the locations of all the finds is available here: http://www.vancouversun.com/maps/sixfeet.html It makes much more sense for feet to wash [...]

In the first three years I worked here, we had only a single birthday party a year here. In the past few months, though, we’ve had a dozen, with tons more planned for the next few months. How come? The secret (don’t tell the competition) is that people buzz about us now in a way [...]

Last year, we did an interview for Global-TV about Sins of the City, showing the cameraman a few of the highlights of the naughty little tour. Naturally, the stories of Detective’s Sinclair and Ricci came up and we showed them a picture of the two of them, in an opium den under Chinatown. The next [...]