Portraits of Guilt
by Jeanne Boylan
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Inside the investigations of the deadly crimes that have shocked our nation -- the Polly Klaas kidnapping, Susan Smith's drownings of her own children, the Oklahoma City bombing -- one woman is the investigative world's secret weapon. You've seen her work: it was her composite drawing that revealed the face of the Unabomber, her hand that put a profile on Oklahoma City's John Doe II, her "dead ringers" that led to resolutions of those and other cases. Now Jeanne Boylan, the gifted forensic show more artist, whose beauty and compassion make her one of the most fascinating crusaders in the war against crime, tells her own riveting and deeply personal story.Boylan reveals the glories and the costs of a career that calls her to join high-profile manhunts to help pick up the pieces of lives devastated by violence. And in a moving disclosure, she shares the reasons behind her relentless pursuit of justice and how she, too, knows firsthand the price of crime. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Portraits of Guilt
- Alternate titles
- Portraits of Guilt
- Dedication
- For you, Polly...
- First words
- My "children" live only in a collection of photos I keep tucked inside my dresser drawer like some foster-family album.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I walked away from the podium understanding, for the first time, that I needed to record the faces of my attackers, to release their images from my mind so that I could finally free my own heart from the anguish of a perpetual search.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 363.258 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Police services Criminal investigation & forensics Identification of criminals
- LCC
- HV8073.4 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Police. Detectves. Constabulary Police duty. Methods of protection Investigation of crimes. Examination
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- (4.25)
- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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