http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/officials-reconstruct-dead-man-s-face-1.1603850
Five years after the bones were found, a face has emerged.
Using anthropological techniques and forensic technology, New York State Police released Wednesday a digital rendering of the face of the man whose remains were found near the Northern State Parkway in March 2004. A woman who drove into the woods near the Sunnyside Boulevard exit after a minor accident found the skeletal remains, investigators said.
"We haven't had any leads yet," said senior investigator
John Lang of the State Police.
Forensic evidence shows the remains belong to a white male between the ages of 35 and 45, about 4'11" to 5'4", with a thin build. He may have been dead between 10 and 22 years by the time he was found, police said.
He was wearing a red Members Only waist length jacket imported into the USA in the spring of 1982, tan pleated canvas bell bottom pants, a button-down white shirt with an orange and blue striped pattern and a 1960 gold Bulova watch, police said.
Herb Buckley, the director of forensic imaging for the State Police who worked on the facial construction, said the first step is to determine what the person would have looked like alive.
"First you have to have a anthropological report from a board-certified anthropologist to get the gender, approximate age, approximate weight, approximate size and state of health of the person," Buckley said by phone from Binghamton.
Then, facial anchor points provide the canvas for bringing the elements together.
"On the face there are 32 anchor points which are the same on children, adults, male or female. They're the same no matter where you are working on the skull - it's universal," Bu
Once the data and the evidence are matched together, Buckley said, "then it becomes my job to envision a face."
The technology to compose such a highly detailed face is fairly new, Buckley said. "As far as computer generated imaging goes, it's only been in the last 10 years that we've advanced to this point."
The facial construction for this case took five years in part because the police are investigating it as a cold case, Lang said.
"So as soon as we got everything shored up and we were able to work the leads, we put this stuff out," he said. "It's basically being handled as a cold case and kind of a back-burner case."
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Slightly different detail in this article.
Dead between 10 - 22 years when found...
Time to do a post listing all the variants.