Justice: The Sketch Artist: Drawing from Elusive Memory

Jeanne Boylan was working in a small Oregon sheriff's office in 1973 when she began to wonder why the police sketches she saw didn't match descriptions she had heard from the victims. There's a better way, she thought. And there was. Today Boylan, 47, is acclaimed for developing a technique so accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber--a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly Klaas' killer, Richard Allen Davis. Her...

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