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Episode 17: Anything For A Witness

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Lois Gibson is considered by many to be the most successful forensic artist in the world. Using skills in art, witness interviewing, and facial reconstruction, Gibson has helped solve over 1,200 cases by sketching portraits of both victims and criminals all over the United States. In 2005, she was even placed in the Guinness Book of World Records because of her success in suspect identifications. EIS finds Gibson at her home in Spring, Texas where she tells stories of an early career in modeling, surviving a brutal attack, and her fascination with faces.

Musical score for Episode 17 by High Aura’d and Mike Shiflet.

017B — Lois in Los Angeles during the early part of her modeling career. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson.

Print — “I played a dead girl in a Robert Mitchum Movie poster” —Lois Gibson.

017D-1 — Photo by Justin Hollar.

Print — Lois modeling for Playboy.

Print — 2005 Guinness Book Of World Records.

Print — A sketch progression using the FBI Facial Identification Catalog. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson.

017G — Lois demonstrating a sketch. Photo by Justin Hollar.

Print — An excerpt from the FBI Facial Identification Catalog. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson, Forensic Art Essentials.

017I — Photo By Justin Hollar.

017J — Lois with a witness in Ben Taub Hospital, 1999. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson.

017K — Photo by Justin Hollar.

017L — One of Lois’ first sketches shown on America’s Most Wanted. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson.

Print — Lois’ 2005 book, Faces of Evil.

Print — Facial proportion template. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson.

Print — After the kidnapping of a 10-month old child from the maternity ward, this sketch led to the arrest of the woman on the right. Image courtesy of Lois Gibson.

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