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Clay and bones : my life as an FBI forensic artist / Lisa Bailey.

by Bailey, Lisa (Forensic artist).

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Chicago Review Press, 2024.

614.17092 B155c

Bailey, Lisa (Forensic artist)

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Biography.

Forensic anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.

Facial reconstruction (Anthropology)

9781641606516 (hc.)

vii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

"Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up. Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disembodied heads of suicide bombers. But it was facial approximation--sculpting a face from the remnants of an unidentified victim's skull--that intrigued her the most. Bailey knew that if she could capture that person's likeness in clay, she just might help them be identified, and that might help law enforcement track down their killer. Bailey worked on hundreds of cases and grew to become a subject matter expert in the field. It was the most challenging and fulfilling work she could have imagined, and she never thought of leaving. But her life changed when she became the target of sexual discrimination and harassment. She was stunned when FBI management protected the abusers and retaliated with threats, slander, and an arsenal of lawyers. Trapped in an increasingly hostile work environment, and infuriated at the hypocrisy of the FBI's tactics, Bailey decided to fight back."--From publisher.

"Bailey debuts with a macabre memoir about her work as an FBI forensic artist. Discussing the tricks of her trade, she notes that the age of a skull can be estimated by examining “wear and tear on teeth” and that clay facial reconstructions are performed on “3D-printed resin replicas” so that the original skull isn’t disturbed or altered. Though Bailey mainly describes the work as quiet and careful, she recounts some of the more dramatic cases she’s been involved with, including flying to Bogotá to draw composite sketches of suspects in the killing of a DEA agent and digitally removing “blood and gore” from photos of the detached heads of suicide bombers so that the images could be released to the public for help with identification. The latter half of the book largely concerns the harassment Bailey endured as one of relatively few women at the Bureau, including getting bullied by vindictive male supervisors who blamed her for their mistakes and sabotaged her work after she filed a complaint against them. Bailey provides gritty insight into the unglamorous labor of forensic artists, but she struggles to effectively integrate the account of her workplace harassment, giving the proceedings a disjointed feel. Still, Bones fans will enjoy the insider’s view of forensic analysis."--Publishers Weekly.

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