Art students work for years to learn to create good portraits that capture the likeness of a subject. Even among trained artists, it takes a special talent to draw faces accurately. This problem ...

Composite drawings, or “bad guy sketches,” are a long-standing form of crime-solving. Former NYPD forensic artist Stephen Mancusi met with Business Insider at his studio to explain how the process ...

Jeanne Boylan was working in a small Oregon sheriff’s office in 1973 when she began to wonder why the police sketches she saw didn’t match descriptions she had heard from the victims. There’s a better ...