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Bella: I posted the following on yesterday's thread before I realized my error. Perhaps you could respond here. Thanks in advance. Iwo Jima

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.

204 posted on 7/27/02 4:01 AM Pacific by Iwo Jima

Oh what tangled webs they weave, when they practice to deceive...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/24/utah.missing.girl/index.html

Here's a report stating, "The source also confirmed local news reports that a forensic sketch artist was brought in to help identify the abductor, but said none of the artists' pieces are being released to the public for "tactical" reasons."