A real life Bones
Baltimore County Police Det. Evelyn Grant is a real life Bones.
The 29-year-old even describes her job as, "Read the bones."
This month, a recreation she sketched of a skull found Westminster in 2007 was matched to a woman who had went missing in Baltimore 14 years ago. It gave the police new leads in a murder and the family a body to bury.
Grant is one of 22 certified forensic artists in the country. She does the traditional sketches of suspects from witness interviews, but she also takes skeletal remains and gives them faces. She's helped police in Pennsylvania and Prince George's County.
Her most recent work identified Toni Dee Vogel. Here is a picture of the victim, before she disappeared from South Baltimore, and the sketch Grant came up with using nothing more than a skull and strand of hair.
A person saw the sketch and identified the victim, confirmed by police by matching DNA to Vogel's mother. The case has been ruled a homicide.
Grant was a fun interview. She talked about how her husband buys her art supplies and doesn't seem to mind that she handles skeletons as part of her job. She carries her sketches with her -- faces of the dead in her purse.
The pictures here were taken by The Sun's Barbara Haddock Taylor.
