forensic art

An image of JonBenet Ramsey was created by forensic artist Stephen Mancusi back in 2002. With the countdown to the Aug 9 release of Thomas Pynchon's detective novel , Inherent Vice (wiki live 8/4), Mancusi's likeness of seclusive Pynchon is back in circulation. Mancusi's talent in forensic art has produced pieces on crime victims including Michael Jackson, Maddie McCann, listed here, worth a look --

Thomas Pynchon: What might he look like now?
by Thom Geier

About three years ago, EW commissioned New York forensic artist Stephen Mancusi — a guy who’s done deliberately aged likenesses of everyone from JonBenet Ramsey to Marilyn Monroe — to use his professional techniques to render what reclusive author Thomas Pynchon might look like now..."

"The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will." — Thomas Pynchon