i said are you john list? and he says no, i m robert p. clark. but bob clark had a scar behind his right ear and a fingerprint check matched prints on a gun permit application john list had filled out one month before the murders. bob clarke and john list were the same man. i said they got him. that was it. they got him. amazingly, john list wore the same style glasses that frank bender had used on the forensic bust. frank bender was 100% right. the picture of john list when he was captured was put next to the picture of that bust on the front page of the new york times. john list had the same exact glasses on that frank bender had put on the forensic bust. it was uncanny. it was almost as if the person who did the bust was actually looking at john list when he did it.
fear of being caught. bender also took into account genetics. he looked at photographs of john list s parents and added sagging jowls and a receding hairline to the bust. list had a surgical scar behind his right ear and bender researched how the scar would look as he aged. with the fiberglass bust complete, bender painted the skin and hair and put list in a suit and tie, what he and walter thought list would wear most of the time. but the bust wasn t complete. the final touch would be a pair of glasses. walter was certain list wasn t vain enough to wear contact lenses. and bender predicted list would be wearing a different style of glasses than those he wore at age 46. bender was convinced list would want to hide the fact that he was a failure by wearing glasses
the lutheran church had been a focus of young john s life. he was an only child and the son of an overly protective domineering mother. list had a masters degree in accounting but lacked social skills and had a history of losing jobs. the psychological profile revealed a man who killed out of anger and retaliation because of his own failure. the perpetrator has a history of frustration and feeling entrapped by women. generally women of their own age group or older or women in authority. the psychological profile helped reinforce bender s vision of the aging fugitive. i had his mouth going down on the corners because of anxiety that i felt he carried with him from committing these crimes. and richard brought out that it wasn t guilt from killing his family, but the anxiety of the
all he had to work with were some old photographs. computers can age a face, but bender s old fashioned hands on technique gives the forensic bust a personal touch. a lot of the computers nowadays will just add like five wrinkles because they re eight years older. sometimes you can actually look better after a few years if you took care of yourself. to look at john list the individual, bender needed a psychological profile of the killer. i get into the head of a person. in a sense i want to become that person while i m working on the fugitive. i want to feel like that person. i want to know everything about that person. he called on the help of forensic psychologist richard walter. together sculptor and psychologist would predict would john list would age. bender and walter poured over newspaper articles and photographs to analyze the man behind the murders. they researched his strict upbringing by german parents.
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