In 1956 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioned a sort of identikit portrait sculpture of a murderer at large, to assist in his pursuit. The sculptor, John Reginald Abbott, himself a member of the RCMP, had been sent to train as a sculptor at Columbia University in New York. He had already exhibited a certain skill in modelling, and it was thought that attending a course would help him to produce more effective tools for the detection of criminals. The head that he produced of the murderer, known at the time only under his alias of "John Cameron", was put together on the basis of eye-witness accounts and was, as usual with such reconstitutions, a rather weird looking thing. It didn't lead to an identification
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