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All he had to work with were some old photographs. computers can age a face, but bender's old fashioned hands on technique gives the forensic bust a personal touch. >> a lot of the computers nowadays will just add like five wrinkles because they're eight years older. sometimes you can actually look better after a few years if you took care of yourself. >> to look at john list the individual, bender needed a psychological profile of the killer. >> i get into the head of a person. in a sense i want to become that person while i'm working on the fugitive. i want to feel like that person. i want t...

Upbringing by german parents. the lutheran church had been a focus of young john's life. he was an only child and the son of an overly protective domineering mother. list had a masters degree in accounting but lacked social skills and had a history of losing jobs. the psychological profile revealed a man who killed out of anger and retaliation because of his own failure. >> the perpetrator has a history of frustration and feeling entrapped by women. generally women of their own age group or older, or women in authority. >> the psychological profile helped reinforce bender's vision of the aging...

John list had been taken years before the murders. what would he look like almost 20 years later? the john list murder case would now enter the highly specialized world of forensic sculpting. >> i had been involved in the battle for missing children's rights for years since the murder of my son in 1981, and i had come across frank bender over the years as a renowned forensic reconstruction artist. >> forensic sculptor frank bender reconstructs faces to help police track down aging fugitives or identify decomposed bodies. part art, part science, part intuition. >> i work with physical anthropol...

Family, but the anxiety of the fear of being caught. >> bender also took into account genetics. he looked at photographs of john list's parents and added sagging jowls and a receding hairline to the bust. list had a surgical scar behind his right ear and bender researched how the scar would look as he aged. with the fiberglass bust complete, bender painted the skin and hair and put list in a suit and tie, what he and walter thought list would wear most of the time. but the bust wasn't complete. the final touch would be a pair of glasses. walter was certain list wasn't vain enough to wear conta...

Before the murders. what would he look like almost 20 years later? the john list murder case would not enter the highly specialized world of forensic sculpting. >> i had been involved in the battle for missing children's rights for years since the murder of my son in 1981, and i had come across frank bender over the years as a renowned forensic reconstruction artist. >> forensic sculptor frank bender reconstructs faces to help police track down aging fugitives or identify decomposed bodies. part art, part science, part intuition. >> i work with physical anthropologists, i work with dentists, p...