Wow - that image is.....well...
Carl - what do you think?
I'm on the cell. Carl & I were discussing it this morning. We think her nose was damaged in the accident. She doesn't look as Italian to me now
Just to be clear, I was commenting to Roselvr on the fact that none of the four official reconstructions of Andrea Doe depict a pug nose.
What I said to Roselvr was that
the other artists are probably presuming that her nose was turned up as the result of the accident. I said that I
don't think that it is smashed down by the accident, but maybe that is what they are thinking.
The PM photo that I have shows a stitched-shut laceration that runs from the inside corner of her right eyebrow, diagonally all the way to her hairline (just to her left of center). Her right eye is blackened as the result of the laceration. There is also a minor road-rash style scrape on her left cheek.
The bridge of her nose looks a little askew, and it is possible that the bridge of her nose was broken. That
may have caused the tip of her nose to turn upward. But I kind of doubt it. If her nose was turned up by a break at the bridge, there would probably be asymmetry at the tip. The tip of her nose is perfectly symmetrical, and looks identical to the nose of the girl on the Time Magazine cover shown earlier on this thread. And the photo that I have is very clear and high-resolution.
All in all, I'm having trouble reconciling that new NCMEC image with the photo that I have.
The NCMEC recon does not depict the very pudgy cheeks that I see in the PM photo. The PM photo shows a woman with very pudgy cheeks. There might be a slight bit of postmortem sagging at the jowls. But these are definitely naturally pudgy cheeks. The pudginess isn't swelling that resulted from the scrape, as both cheeks are equally pudgy, and very symmetrical.
The NCMEC artist also minimized the fullness of her lips. I think her lips are just a little bit more full than NCMEC has depicted.
I do like the way they depicted her hairstyle, though it looks kind of strange how they show her left ear and hid her right ear. Her eyebrows are accurate. Her chin is pretty accurate. They show her with big wide eyes, and perhaps that is the case. But they minimized the fullness of her lower eyelids, which is evident in the not-blackened left eye.
They didn't do a very good job of finishing the image, as they do with most of their recons. It is smudged all over the place and the color isn't consistent. They didn't even completely photoshop out the laceration. There is still a shadow where the laceration was. It looks like they quit about halfway through, and went ahead and published it.
Perhaps it might turn out that she does look like that. But I'm not seeing it.