The main floor was devoted to a staged crime scene investigation of a simulated murder. Visitors to the museum were guided through the process of solving the crime through
forensic science techniques, including ballistics, blood analysis, fingerprinting and footprinting, and dental and facial reconstruction. The museum included a mock police station with a booking room, celebrity mug shots, police line-up, lie detector test, prisoners' art, and jail-made weapons and escape tools, and a re-creation of the jail cell of
Al Capone at the
Eastern State Penitentiary in
Philadelphia. A capital punishment room offered a re-creation of a
guillotine and
gas chamber, along with an authentic lethal injection machine from the
state prison in
Smyrna, Delaware, and an electric chair from the
Tennessee State Prison in
Nashville which was used for 125 executions. The crime-fighting gallery drew attention to such notables as founding FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover, and the legendary law enforcement agent
Eliot Ness. It also included the uniforms, firearms, and restraining equipment of law enforcement officers and exhibits on bomb squad and night vision technologies. ==''America's Most Wanted'' studio==