Forensic sketch artist Jane Billingham works during a live forensic sketch event by the nonprofit Can You Identify Me? at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015.

For Michigan State Police forensic sketch artists, conversations about eyebrow thicknesses, the distance between a suspect's eyes or even the crookedness of a nose can help lead to an arrest.

Forensic sketch artist Barbara Anderson sits near one of her facial reconstruction sketches at her home in Rocklin on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022.

A sketch artist comes in handy when there's no surveillance video of a suspect or when a criminal doesn't leave behind the physical evidence that leads detectives to his or her trail.

When a victim or a witness of a crime comes forward, it is the job of Santa Maria, 28, a forensic sketch artist in the Crime Scene Investigation Division, to bring a physical approximation of the ...

Becoming a sketch artist The officers all said they developed an interest in forensic art as they pursued their careers in law enforcement. Art was something they had a knack for growing up, as well.

But the Chicago Police Department, where Rathel worked, no longer employs a sketch artist. Forensic artists are harder to find at police departments as facial identification computer programs grow ...

Forensic Sketch Artist Helps Family Create Special Memory. May 13, 2019 / 9:57 PM MDT / CBS Colorado ... and it just came to me like this is what police sketch artists do," said Pasley.

SAGINAW, MI — When three women told the Saginaw Police Department they were assaulted by a man in Old Town, on the city's West Side, authorities called in police sketch artists for help. The two ...

Albuquerque Police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released a new poster Wednesday including the composite photo of Baby Angel and new pictures of the clothes the boy ...

After drawing thousands of sketches of people wanted for crimes, the Houston Police Department's forensic sketch artist Lois Gibson has made the 2005 Guinness World Records. With 168 sketches in ...