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Photos: Sculptor As Sleuth

Forensic artist Frank Bender puts faces on murder victims, and lost killers

Frank Bender puts faces on the dead. A self-taught forensic sculptor, he's the artist called in when all that's left of a murder victim are bones. He sometimes helps catch fugitives too. In the course of a career lasting more than three decades, his projections of how those on the run are likely to age-and disguise themselves-helped police track down the likes of John List, a man who spent 18 years in hiding after murdering his wife, three teenage children and his 85-year-old mother in Westfield, NJ. Here, Bender is pictured with a skull found alongside a skeleton of a six-month-old fetus. He calls her the Girl in the Well.