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The girl with the crooked nose : a tale of murder, obsession, and forensic artistry / Ted Botha.
- Title
- The girl with the crooked nose : a tale of murder, obsession, and forensic artistry / Ted Botha.
- Author
- Botha, Ted
- Publication
- New York : Random House, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HV8073.4 .B67 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 262 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- An account of the work of forensic artist Frank Bender describes his work in putting a face to the victims of brutal murders, focusing on his work reconstructing the faces of the dead in the killings of women in and around Juarez, Mexico.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Mexico. The nightmare ; Braids ; The meat market ; The man who lived in the monster ; The feminicidios ; Chihuahua ; Neanderthal ; City of pink crosses -- The beginning. An anatomy lesson ; Woman from Arizona ; The death mask ; Homicide Hal ; Tissue thickness ; In Russia ; A wall of skulls ; Tug McGraw ; Talking heads ; From supraglabella to mandible ; Behind the curtain ; Copying Lisa's ears -- Mexico. Ten 30-gallon barrels ; Fragile. Don't touch ; The enemy ; Fifty-fifty ; Praying ; A warning -- The murders. Reese's pieces ; Letters to the FBI ; Shattered ; Doctor angel ; A body on the next seat ; Axion and Biz ; Murder a la carte ; The ship 'n shore blouse ; Harmony -- Mexico. A secret ; Making a mold in the night ; No guns allowed ; "We'll talk about this in the morning" ; The best margaritas in Mexico ; In big trouble ; Sex ; Burnt sienna and raw umber ; Claudia ; The girl with the crooked nose -- The fugitives. Carrying a gun ; The man in the cornfield ; Scrapple ; The seventh body ; Allie Boy's blue lip ; The mastoid process ; The men who would be detectives ; The parrot tattoo ; Cheating ; Diving off Pier 40 ; The boy in the bag -- Mexico. Intuition ; Approaching Vidocq ; A miracle in El Paso ; The explosion ; Coming back alive -- The id's. Jacqueline Gough ; Edward Solly ; Lorean Quincy Weaver -- Mexico. Code word : "Christmas" ; Case number 193/01 ; Under the covers ; Bad water -- Post mortem. Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9781400065332 (alk. paper)
- 140006533X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008008172
- OCLC
- 176952059
- SCSB-12876090
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library