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forensics

The law's 'last resort'

Filed by Hallie Martin on May 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Joy Mann had to base her sketch only on the charred face of a young woman.

The woman was found in a smoldering dumpster on a wintery January day outside Borg-Warner Automotive Inc. in Lombard. Police removed the badly burned body and called Mann, a forensic artist, to do a post-mortem sketch of the face so they could air the picture on the 10 p.m. news.

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