Richard, I also suspicioned there may have be a good reason for foster care/institional abductions like vunerability and also wondered if the abductor struck on the idea of snatching kids from these areas because he may have been in that situation himself at one time. I always want to understand why and how things happen.
The newspaper picture I now have appears to be of an actual photograph of F H Coffey, Jr. Possibly his Vitro picture. The hair matches the composite fairly close, ears close to head, forehead broad as I told Lt. Mandano and probably put into the above description I put on this site, similar eyebrows. Something I keep seeing around the eyes matches but, the heavy shading from below both eyes in the pic, across the nose, down both cheeks graduates from light heavy to very dark heavy preventing me from seeing the actual jaw line on either side and no expression around the mouth. He appears to have no upper lip as in the prison photo. I've been going around the house for days hiding my upper lip into my lower lip wondering if he did this to hide his lips. Since the same thing occurs in the prision photo it's either natural or he deliberately hides his lips in photos. I think you may have been the one who pointed out the man in the composite had thick lips. Since I have no recollection of his lips I have to by-pass that and stick to what is firm in my mind that I recall of TRM allowing that the composite may have areas in it that I have no memory about because my attention was on those areas that stood out and on his strange behavior.
Up to 1975 I had worked 20 years in what's now called Data Entry field but was not called that back then. My attention to detail had been pretty well honed by that time. It's still a part of my nature tho age is taking it's toll but I have to be sure it's the same man before I say positively it is. I don't want to mis-ID someone.
Now, we also have to keep in mind that the night I saw TRM his hair was possibly bleached pure white and could have been what's called "Styled" possibly by him and possibly at the in between hair cut stage where it would have been a little bit longer allowing it to be combed a little higher in the front, possibly teased, smoother waves on top (Coffey's hair looks kinky in the pic) and puffed out on the sides above the ears. All this puffy, standing up. wavy hair made his head look larger. That's another thing I see in the pic - he's big boned, appears to have good sized head and that's not to imply out of proportion. In fact, there's nothing "slight" or "frail" looking about him in this picture and it is Fred because it's labelled with his name and appears to be newsprint and not hand written.
The composite on the left - DoeNet - is on the mark for the TRM I saw. I'm questioning if he might have been sick or on drugs or alcohol that might have made the skin around his eyes look flat and drawn.
A nearby church had a video of an interview by Dr. James Robinson with Ted Bundy, at Bundy's request, the night before he was executed, I believe it was. In answer to a question about the need to drink prior to...Bundy told Dr. Robinson that in order for him to do the things he was doing he had to get drunk first. Dr. Robinson tried to sell this video to the news media but they wouldn't buy so it's never been seen by the public and is quite long and informative about what he was doing, how he got into it and how it progressed. I haven't been to this church in years and it has a new pastor I hear so couldn't say if they still have the video but I think there's a good chance they do. They have a small library in the church building. I have to assume it's still there. Anyway, that makes me wonder if TRM may have had another vice that might be causing facial changes. Just thoughts all over the place that don't solve anything. The answers would only give more info about the man, if positive. Not necessarily useful.
I emailed my cousin tonight who stopped last Wed to visit a couple hours on the way home to another state. She was telling me about two family members who know how to clean up photos and this was in relationship to some old family photos I had copied for her that came up badly messed up. Had nothing to do with Coffey. Anyway, I'll be looking for an answer soon as to whether I can send a copy of this newspaper photo to her to give to them and see if they can fix it for me. I made several copies of both the small pic and the enlarged pic not realizing I might need them but I've learned to do that for just that reason.
I've finally figured out what I'm having trouble with. The photo looks like a younger TRM, so, what's going on here?.
Thanks for helping me out Richard and please keep commenting. It helps.
