Post by WOLVERETT on Feb 10, 2010 18:13:14 GMT -5
www.news-record.com/content/2010/02/06/article/dying_sculptor_hopes_to_learn_child_s_name On Sept. 25, 1998, a groundskeeper for a billboard company was mowing along the Interstate 85/ Buckhorn Road exit and discovered something in the long summer grass at the edge of the woods.
It was the scattered remains of a skeleton, a 10-year-old child, with tube socks and new boy’s sneakers still on the child’s feet. Folded neatly in the pocket of a pair of khaki shorts was $50 — two $20s, one $10.
In a macabre jigsaw of a crime scene, half the pieces were missing, the other half were broken. And for 11 years since — until the unveiling Saturday night at N.C. State of a facial reconstruction by one of the world’s leading forensic artists — detectives had no picture to guide them in putting the puzzle together.
Not only was there no clue to John Doe’s real name, but detectives couldn’t even describe his face until a North Carolina child advocacy group commissioned renowned Philadelphia artist Frank Bender to create the reconstruction.
According to the article Mr. Bender is dying of cancer. I was saddened to learn this.
It was the scattered remains of a skeleton, a 10-year-old child, with tube socks and new boy’s sneakers still on the child’s feet. Folded neatly in the pocket of a pair of khaki shorts was $50 — two $20s, one $10.
In a macabre jigsaw of a crime scene, half the pieces were missing, the other half were broken. And for 11 years since — until the unveiling Saturday night at N.C. State of a facial reconstruction by one of the world’s leading forensic artists — detectives had no picture to guide them in putting the puzzle together.
Not only was there no clue to John Doe’s real name, but detectives couldn’t even describe his face until a North Carolina child advocacy group commissioned renowned Philadelphia artist Frank Bender to create the reconstruction.
According to the article Mr. Bender is dying of cancer. I was saddened to learn this.