318: Lisa Bailey – Clay and Bones, FBI Forensic Artist

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI forensic artist Lisa Bailey reviews the FBI’s forensic facial approximation program, where she used skulls and anthropologist reports to create sculptures of unidentified individuals to help investigators seeking the public’s assistance in solving cold cases. She also reviews the 5-year research project she launched on behalf of the FBI at the University of Tennessee’s “Body Farm,” which resulted in the Bureau’s 3D digital and photographic forensic art reference collection of over 100 contemporary skulls. Lisa Bailey served in the FBI for 18 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 318 of FBI Retired Case Fall Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you
0:16.6	who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.2	Today we get to speak to retired FBI forensic artist Lisa Bailey, who served in the FBI for 18 years.
0:34.4	In this episode, she reviews the FBI's
0:38.1	Forensic Facial Approximation Program where she used
0:42.3	human skulls and anthropologist reports to create
0:46.2	sculptures of unidentified individuals to help investigators seeking the
0:52.4	public's assistance and solving cold cases.
0:56.0	Lisa also reviews the five-year research project she launched on behalf of the FBI at the University of Tennessee's Body Farm, which
1:07.0	resulted in the Bureau's 3D digital and photographic forensic art reference collection of over 100 contemporary skulls.
1:18.0	Prior to the FBI, Lisa served in the US Navy as a Russian linguist and worked as a graphic artist at the John Hopkins
1:27.2	University Applied Physics Laboratory. She began her FBI career in the investigative and
1:33.7	prosecutor graphic unit at the FBI laboratory two months after the
1:38.8	9-11 terrorist attacks Lisa created presentations and demonstrative evidence for the prosecution of a major terror
1:47.8	suspect. In addition to creating composite sketches of terror suspects, Lisa's casework included age
1:56.5	progressions of when it fugitives and post-mortem images of unidentified victims. She rose to become the FBI's first female
2:06.5	forensic sculptor creating realistic sculptures from the skulls of
2:11.4	unidentified victims.
2:13.0	Lisa was an adjunct faculty member at the FBI Academy
2:17.0	and an instructor of the FBI's forensic facial imaging class.
2:22.0	Her work has been featured on the FBI website and
2:25.6	social media platforms, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the
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