Showing posts with label police sketch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police sketch. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2015

11 year old's stick figure leads to arrest

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

An 11-year old girl--Rebecca DePietro--drew a stick figure that led police to a man who has now confessed to 10 burglaries in Stratford, Connecticut.  Here is the sketch, and the burglar. 

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Adventures with the Identikit


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Every once in a while, I break out the Faces 3.0 software and crank out some police sketches.

I did these last night. One serious limitation of the software is that it is difficult to create a female or Caucasian face. It was created for a different era, I suppose (the software is 10 years old...not that different an era). I've created a Hitler and and Elvis, but it's tough to create a recognizable person. Right after I said that Jeff Clinton used an online flash identikit and cranked out a sort of plausible version of me!:


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