Who are they? Reconstructing faces of the dead - The Fifth Estate

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Published 2020-01-27
Fifteen students, one instructor and one RCMP officer are on a mission to put a name and identity to 15 lost individuals. The Fifth Estate follows Cpl. Charity Sampson on a journey to the New York Academy of Art with 15 replica skulls in a last-ditch effort to identify remains found in British Columbia and Nova Scotia between 1972 and 2016. Over a five-day period, the students in a forensic sculpture workshop reconstructed the faces of the 15 unidentified men. It's a program that has had success in the United States. Since we started this story, one of the men, whose body was found in Nova Scotia, has been identified as a New Brunswick man.

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All Comments (21)
  • @Fubs_the_queen
    “Wednesday Thursday it’s quiet because the room is filled with 16 extra people” that hit me hard.
  • @nat3101
    Could you imagine how haunting it would be to see your loved one's face reconstructed in clay, by people who never met them, years after the fact of their death.
  • @ezzie9167
    “They’re lost. They’ve lost their name.” That hit hard
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  • @cleareyedliar
    "he has almost an expression on his face as though he's asking if i can help him." my heart breaks.
  • @Emily-kd2zv
    I would probably start crying the second I saw a realistic face looking at me. Kudos to these people for keeping it together.
  • @JD-wm4uv
    The only thing even more sad is working on missing children reconstruction
  • @anasapsana824
    Let us pay a respect to the person created this kind of reconstructions professor Gerasimov from USSR, he worked in 1940-50s to let us see faces of tsars and medieval people
  • @2degucitas
    It's great that 3d printed versions of their skulls can be used instead of the real thing.
  • Imagine dong this and reconstructing the face of someone you knew that went missing....
  • @awebite3467
    it hurts to see a face and think ‘wow they are handsome/beautiful’ and then remember the trauma that that person faced 🥺🥺
  • @HeyItsMeeTee
    The fact that Joe's sculpting was so spot on to the picture and that he even said he had a sad/concerned look to him and Joe even said did he commit suicide to only find out he did......... this is incredible work and will bring closure to so many people! Giving life and an ID back to a person who lost theirs is so heavy and I am here for it!!!!!! Lets keep doing this
  • I'm glad this exist.. Cause the Killer or Killers now will be sweating bullets.
  • @WellStudied
    15 FACES RECONSTRUCTED... ONE IDENTIFIED THRU A PICTURE OF HIS BOOT.
  • @Tinymoezzy
    I don't know if it is intentional, but the faces all look lost.
  • @wieldwords
    I worked years ago with Joe Mullins at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, VA. His talent and accuracy in age progression and reconstruction amazes me now as much as it did then. I had to leave that job after being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, but those names and faces never leave you. The work being done in this program really does change lives. From someone who’s been on the other end of a family’s grief and relief, thank you, and many blessings.
  • @tinalynch9283
    This needs to be a tv show so many don't know about this great work such a blessing that humankind can do this
  • @pommiebears
    They’re lost. They’ve lost their name... Wow. That tugged at the old heartstrings. 😔
  • @MayimHastings
    “He has an expression on his face as though he’s asking if I can help him.” I’m not sure why that hit me so hard. So grateful and proud of these artists 😭