Hate to say it, but she doesn’t look much like the “age progression” photo they had of her. Does that ever do much good in locating a child years later?<<This is actually a question of curiosity, I’m not trying to be malicious or snide.
It worked for capturing John List 20 years after he murdered his family.
But he was already an adult and I think luck had a lot to do with coming up with a matching bust of him. Sure did make America's Most Wanted famous.
Some people looks stay the same from childhood on, but some don't. At 50, I still look like my grade school pictures, my husband, on the other hand, looks like aliens kidnapped him & replaced him with someone who bears no resemblance to him as a child. :-)
I happen to be a Forensic Artist at my department. What you have to remember is that Age Progression is mostly art with some reasonable inferences from science. That is, there is a lot of room for “artist interpretation”. I have seen age progressions come out remarkably close. I haven’t looked at the Dugard one so I won’t comment on that. Age Progression done well is a craft that takes a lot of patience, skill and luck...