Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office
On April 7th, I went up to Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office. They’d like to clear up all of their unidentified remains cases, and have asked me to do reconstructions for them. Three of their medical investigators and two detectives from the Snohomish County Cold Case Unit were there to watch the process. I was […]
DNA Profile for Unidentified Remains Case
Washington’s Most Wanted has updated this case recently, advising a private firm has been able to extract a full DNA profile from the remains. One step closer to finding out who she was.
Corel Painter 2016 Beta Team
Over the past year, I’ve been honored to participate on the Corel Painter 2016 beta testing team. I use Painter for all of my forensic art work, and I promote it over Adobe Photoshop to other forensic artists. When the 2016 product was released, a few of my images were included. The image at left […]
Two Identifications This Week
I spoke this week with Dr. Kathy Taylor, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office forensic anthropologist . She told me two cases I’d drawn for them resulted in identifications recently. The first case was one I’d drawn back in 2001. I think it was the first reconstruction I did for KCME. The skeletal remains had […]
Journal of Forensic Identification Article
I wrote an article that is being published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Forensic Identification. The JFI is the official publication of the International Association for Identification. I have seen several postmortem drawings of unidentified people published where it is obvious that the artist just traced over the features of a morgue […]
Unidentified Remains in Kent WA
2D Reconstruction A recent case of a female unidentified in the Seattle area. I’m still playing with different methods of adding tone. In this case, the forensic anthropologist was able to show me a hair sample and a shirt that were with the remains. This case was featured on Washington’s Most Wanted in July.