7) Forensic Facial Reconstruction

Question 1

Positive ID (the skull was this person) established through
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Answer 1

DNA comparison
Radiological comparison
Odontological comparison
Fingerprint comparison

Question 2

In Creating a likeness of an individual, the practice assumes there is a predictable relationship between the structure of the _________ and the structure of the _________.

Answer 2

Skull

Face

Question 3

In the ________________ method (_______________ method), you don’t just rely on tissue depths, but you take those as the groundwork and then yo fill in the gaps by interpolating the known anatomy.

Answer 3

Combination

Manchester

Question 4

We have an idea of how far the eye goes ____________, the anterior/posterior placement of the eye in orbit.

Answer 4

Forward

Question 5

Lip thickness is measured from the ____________ _________________ where the lips meet down to the edge of the _______________ _____________.

Answer 5

Labial commissure

Vermilion border

Question 6

Width of the mouth is measured from _________ to __________ (chelion to chelion)

Answer 6

Corner to corner

Question 7

We have to figure out how far the nose ________ _______ (pronasale), we have to know how _______ ______ & _______ it is (whether the nose is pointing up/down), and the _________ of the nose

Answer 7

Sticks out
High up & down
Width

Question 8

We can deduce nothing about…

Answer 8

Hair colour/style (unless samples are available)
Skin blemishes or scarring (without related traumatic or pathological damage to bone)
Eye colour

Question 9

What is an advantage of using the digital method?

Answer 9

You can laser scan something and if you’re missing half the mandible you can just reflect it digitally.

Question 10

To test if facial reconstruction/approximation works, we can use _____________ ______________, where when we use a MRI/CT scan, we can get a 3D digital model of their face. We can also extract their skull digitally and then use that skull for somebody else to do a digital reconstruction of what they think they would have looked like without see the actual face. Then we can do a comparison — ___________ __________ of where things are underestimated and where things are overestimated.

Answer 10

Medical imaging

Heat map

Question 11

Present the likeness to the public

What two groups of people is it for?

Answer 11

Casual

Primed

Question 12

A casual audience may have…

Answer 12

Known the individual as a passing acquaintance.

Question 13

A primed audience is an audience that is…

Answer 13

Actively seeking a missing person.

They are willing to accept some things that were wrong and latch onto things that were right along with accompanying information.