How can a woman be fatally shot in the chest in a house no killer could have gotten in or out of, with no murder weapon left behind at the scene?

Katherine Briscoe's 1934 death at her Baltimore home has all the makings of a classic locked room murder. So how could it have been done, how did her death lead to the development of a new weapon and what's all this got to do with a renowned physicist by the name of Robert Williams Wood?

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