2009-07-21 22:39:05 - Frank Bender, "Recomposer of the Decomposed" Forensics Sculptor Is This Week's Guest on Talk Forensics Sunday July 26th at 4pm eastern.

Talk Forensics welcomes Frank Bender world-renowned forensic facial reconstruction artist and fine artist. His job is to make facial reconstructions of the unidentified dead and of fugitives, many who have been on the run for a long time. He primarily works in clay and then casts his pieces into plaster and paints them, but he has also aged fugitives using pastels. His most famous facial reconstruction case led to the arrest of John Emil List; the case was shown on America's Most Wanted. His fine art work stems from his forensic work and is often a blend of art and science. He has created life-sized monuments in bronze for the African Burial Grounds in New York (using three of the

actual skulls found on the site), a monument for slain police officers in New Jersey, a holocaust obelisk, and many other works of fine art in various media. Frank Bender is a highly sought after forenisc sculptor and fine artist.

Bender is one of the founding members of the Vidocq Society along with William Fleisher and Richard Walter. The Vidocq Society, named after Eugène François Vidocq, meets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and focuses on solving cold cases.

On May 13th, 2008 Random House released The Girl With the Crooked Nose by Ted Botha, a book on his life story intertwined with his most challenging case: the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez.

About the Show:

The purpose of our show is to educate and entertain the public on the various fields of forensic science, crime scene investigation, missing person searches and various aspects of the legal system as it relates to forensic science.

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About our host:

The host of our show is Larry E. Daniel. Larry is the primary expert for Guardian Digital Forensics. Larry is well known for his work on capital cases and is an expert in computer forensics. Larry also writes a popular internet blog on forensics at www.exforensis.blogspot.com

The show airs on www.blogtalkradio.com/TalkForensics each Sunday at 4PM Eastern