“As they stare out from these photographs,” Svenson concludes, “two questions must be asked for them: ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who killed me?’” Photograph: Arne SvensonSvenson’s journey into forensic facial reconstruction inevitably led him to some dark places. When police forensics arrived at the scene, they found the remains of a young woman clad only in a blouse. “Gradually, I began to see Rosella,” she said, “and I began to see Rosella’s mother Freedeina, and Rosella’s grandmother. It was advertising an exhibition of forensic facial sculpture and the image in question bore a strange resemblance to her niece, Rosella Atkinson, who had disappeared, aged 18, three years earlier.

Source: The Guardian June 13, 2016 07:52 UTC