Will County Illinois cold case

The coroner’s office at Will County Illinois asked me to do a postmortem rendering from their 1968 cold case on this unidentified Native American female. She was about 20 to 30 years of age and had been suffocated. If you have any leads on who this might be, please contact investigator Gene Sullivan at gsullivan@willcountyillinois.com […]

Corona Girl Identified

Corona Girl has been identified! This ID was via DNA Doe Project. My colleagues on the team narrowed down the possibilities and found the ID just before Christmas while I was out of state, so I missed out on the excitement. When I returned to Texas, the ID had been confirmed through DNA testing with […]

Corel Painter tutorial videos

Three ancestries

Corel has released the series of tutorials I made for them that illustrates some methods that I use when drawing digitally. There are four videos:  Age progression and muscles of the head (muscles of expression and mastication) Drawing a composite The differences in the skulls for specific ancestry and sex How to learn to draw […]

Unidentified remains homicide case from 1979 is one step closer to resolution

In April 2019, I joined the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit in Georgetown TX. Initially I had just offered to do forensic art for them but because I am a former police officer, they asked if I would also be interested in doing investigations. They assigned me to their 3 unidentified remains cases. […]

Williamson County Cold Case Unit

In April, I started working with the Williamson County Cold Case Unit here in Georgetown TX as an investigator and forensic artist. I’ll be working on the three unidentified remains cases here: Orange Socks, Corona Girl, and Rebel Ray. To start with, I drew new versions of all three cases. Mostly this was to get […]

Snohomish County Unidentified Remains cases

I’ve recently finished 3 cases for Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office in Washington. This is the information on the cases. The first victim was found in Yost Park Edmonds in November 2018. This surveillance photo was taken of him a couple of weeks before he was found, but was insufficient for identification. He was a […]