The “World’s Most Successful Forensic Artist” has released a sketch that she says portrays what the man who abducted Nancy Guthrie might look like.
Lois Gibson, a forensic artist based in Houston, drew the image from surveillance video released earlier this month by the FBI. These four black-and-white images captured a masked man outside Guthrie’s Tucson home before the 84-year-old was abducted.
The sketch artist said the man appears to have a wide head, thick eyebrows, medium-length dark hair, and a goatee.
“I GUESSED at the parts of face covered with ski mask on this Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect. I used the surveillance photos shown,” Gibson wrote on Facebook.
She continued, “I spent 43 years at job trying to help detectives with similar photos. Only thing somewhat sure are eyes and part of lips/mustache. I’ll take the hit if I’m drastically wrong.”
Investigators have described the suject as a man about 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall with an average build.
The release of the footage led to at least one person being detained and questioned.
A Tucson delivery driver was stopped after a family member told police his eyes looked similar to those in the video. He was released after speaking with detectives.
“Pompous critics call me unethical and that they, these critics, have higher professionalism blah blah blah,” Gibson said Friday in a separate Facebook post.
She continued, “I do it to help victims of crime. My sketches have retrieved 8 kidnap victims, including 4 infants. These critics have possibly never helped return a baby to their hysterical mom. I have been with loved ones in agony over their kidnapped loved one and it is the worst emotional torture imaginable. I did this in an effort to help.”
Four people, including a mother and son, were detained during overnight operations Friday and later released after interviews.
Guthrie was last seen alive on January 31 and was reported missing the next day when she did not arrive at a friend’s home to watch a church service online.
She appears to have been forced from her house, leaving a trail of blood, investigators have said.
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