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Here's what I wrote on another thread:
To: Bella

I would appreciate your thoughts on Jeannie Boylan's statements. I understand that she does not consider herself to be a "sketch artist" in that her artistic skills, while considerable, pale in significance relative to her interviewing techniques. Her forte is her ability to draw people out to remember things which they never thought they knew or might have even adamantly denied that they knew. She uses her very warm and compelling personality to do this.

I read her remarks to Katie Couric to be a very subtle and diplomatic way of saying that sketches are extremely important and the earlier the better, but that a sketch done wrong -- by your run-of-the-mill "sketch artist" --often does more harm than good. Therefore, she was pleased to see THAT NO SKETCH HAD EVER BEEN DONE or maybe even that MK had not really been interivewed. She was able to get very good information because no one had been there to poison the well, so to speak.

I don't think that she is saying at all that it was a good thing that no sketch had ever been done. If she had been allowed to do a sketch from the outset, it makes you want to cry just thinking what a difference that could have made. But the SLC police would have probably botched the interview and the sketch just like they have apparently botched so many things.

The family should have listened to Mark Klaas.

The idea that there was no ability to get a sketch is so preposterous that no thinking person could possibly believe that. Boylan has stated that she got very good information from MK. Whether or not you RELEASE a sketch is a very different decision from whether or not you have a sketch done BY A QUALIFED PERSON (which appparently doesn't include anyone associated with SLCPD).

But the SLC police would have probably botched the interview and the sketch just like they have apparently botched so many things.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but that is just what it is - opinion. You are not privy to the details of the case and are merely speculating. You don't know for a fact that the police have botched a single thing. There is a world of difference between an incompetent perp such as in the Runyon case who doesn't hide any evidence (left his calling card) and an experienced criminal who hides everything. Some of those who have been privy to some of the details (such as Boylan) give the police/FBI high marks.

The idea that there was no ability to get a sketch is so preposterous that no thinking person could possibly believe that.

Reality check: It was dark, MK may have only seen him from the back or side and was looking up from her bed AND the perp may have been wearing a mask. (Wouldn't you?). What MK saw clearly was his hands and was apparently the focus of the Boylan involvement i.e. how to represent the texture of the perps hands. She also heard his voice clearly and has been listening to tapes of possible suspect's voices.