Different forms of art when depicting missing or persons of interests

Photos and videos identify suspects all the time, but what also comes in handy when pictures are not available, are sketches. Just this week, the newly revealed sketch of the person who threatened Stormy Daniels has people on high alert, trying to see who can associate this person with president trump’s team.

Daniels’ legal team has received “well over 1,500 tips” after releasing that sketch. But in southeast Idaho, officials would rather use different, more reliable methods, than having a sketch artist.

“Eyewitnesses, although are best for us to get statements from, sometimes their encounter or their memory may slip a little bit for them,” said Idaho Falls Police Department detective Josh Deede.

Not all sketches look as detailed as the man said to have threatened Stormy Daniels. For example, the viral stick-figure-like sketch, even though it surprising helped find the suspect, it was pretty vague. The Idaho falls police department hasn’t used a sketch artist for years. In recent memory, not since Detective Deede has been with the department in his 19-years.

“With technology there’s computer programs, stuff like that where you can actually create a possible drawing or a possible image much quicker with technology, rather than drawing and putting pen to paper,” Deede said.

With cold cases, age progression is highly recommended.

Stephanie Crane from Challis, would be 34 this year. She was reported missing in 1993 when she was 9-years-old. In 2012, the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children produced this picture of what Crane might have look liked that year. And in 2017, they released another age progression, with her being 33-years-old.

De’Orr Kunz, Jr. would be turning five this year. He disappeared in 2015 while camping with family in the Timber Creek area of Lemhi County. In 2017, the center released an age progression of what Kunz might have looked like at the age of four.

For the Angie Dodge case, in which the suspect is the person police are looking for, this was the DNA phenotype of him at the time of Dodge’s murder — to what he would look like in 2017 around age 40.

“We didn’t use a sketch artist for Angie Dodge mostly because we don’t have a witness that could tell us what his person looks like. All we have is the crime scene and then we did release a Parabon NanoLabs snapshot of what the person could look like, but that was based solely on the DNA sample left at the scene,” Deede said.

The only official forensic sketch artists still in the gem state, is within the Boise Police Department.