Historical Cold Case

Esther Granger reconstruction

I did a 2D reconstruction on a really interesting historical case with Kane County Coroner’s Office in Illinois. The case started in 1979 when a homeowner in Batavia (Kane County) was doing some renovations and pulled out the baseboard in a wall. A part of a mandible fell out from the wall and the homeowner […]

Age Progression

Missing person Alyssa McLemore

I was recently asked to do an age progression on a case from Kent Washington, my old agency. This is a missing person from April 9 2009. The victim is Alyssa McLemore. She was 21 when she disappeared, 5’1″ to 5’3″ and 130 lbs. She had brown eyes and black hair and was Native American. […]

Snohomish County Unidentified Case

I recently finished an unidentified remains case for Snohomish County. They’ve posted it on their website Unidentified Remains | Snohomish County, WA – Official Website (snohomishcountywa.gov) This was a 2D reconstruction with just a cranium as the only remains recovered, no mandible or other evidence. Very little information is available about this individual. Until DNA […]

Cowlitz County Unidentified

At the end of April, I did a couple of jobs for Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office. I cleaned up a couple of tattoos on a drowning victim so they could post clean versions on a media release to get a quick ID on the victim the next day, and I did a postmortem drawing on […]

Reading the Skull release info

Cover of Reading the Skull

Taylor Francis has advised my new book will be available for pre-order on September 7th and will ship after September 28th. I look forward to feedback on the advanced techniques that I’m illustrating!

Recent IDs

In the summer of 2023 I was notified of three identifications of individuals that I’d drawn in reconstructions. All three cases were IDed through genetic genealogy. DNA is taken from the remains and uploaded online to GEDMatch. When the individual has DNA in common with others who have uploaded their data, that individual is related […]