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 how john list would age. bender and walter poured over newspaper articles and photographs to analyze the man behind the murders. they researched his strict
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he had a scar behind his ear. and he was well put together and a classy dresser. and by the time they got to the sculpture, i was convinced it was him. to look at it, you would have known. the clincher for me was the glasses and the jowls. we said oh, my god, that s bob. bob clarke. bob is john list. we ve got to call. wanda told the fbi that her former neighbor moved to richmond, virginia, and was using the name bob clarke. the fbi closed in, and agents arrested robert peter clarke at the accounting office where he worked in richmond. i approached him and i asked him are you mr. clark and he said yes.
it was signed by john list. list had recently lost a lucrative banking job was having money problems and feared his family would have to go on welfare. and he had other concerns. as a devout christian, list feared that his family was turning away from a christian life and would eventually stop going to church. he disapproved of his daughter s growing interest in an acting career, a profession he considered to be immoral. in the mind of john list, there was only one place he could send his family to save their souls. at least i m certain they have all gone to heaven now. the letter provided some details of the murders. that it took longer for his oldest son john to die. he was riveted with bullets until list was satisfied the
john list had been taken years before the murders. what would he look like almost 20 years later? the john list murder case would now enter the highly specialized world of forensic sculpting. i had been involved in the battle for missing children s rights for years since the murder of my son in 1981, and i had come across frank bender over the years as a renowned forensic reconstruction artist. forensic sculptor frank bender reconstructs faces to help police track down aging fugitives or identify decomposed bodies. part art, part science, part intuition. i work with physical anthropologists, i work with dentists, pathologists, detectives. america s most wanted asked frank bender to add 18 years to the face of john list.