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na ed f e 1 n o e f ent using the anthropometric craniofacial variability index (CVI). This method employs 16 standard craniofacial anthropometric measurements and figures, thus giving the public a face to go with the person’s name throughout historical education. Forensic Science International 1reconstruction is employed when all other alternatives are unsuccessful, thus it is a last resort employed in the anticipation that someone, somewhere, will be able to identify the deceased and offer clues to law enforcement investigators which ulti-mately lead to an arrest. This arrest can bring about closure to friends and relatives of the deceased and assist police investigators in removing criminals from society. Facial recon-struction can also be helpful in investigations of genocide and mass death resulting from wars, accidents, terrorist attacks, etc. facial reconstruction as an ‘‘academic exercise’ ’ [3]. The German anatomist His took facial tissue depth measurements from a small number of cadavers and used those measurements to model a face onto a plaster cast of the skull of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach in 1895, demonstrating favorable results when compared to Bach’s portraits [4]. In 1898, Dante’s face was reconstructed by Kollman using a similar methodol-ogy [3]. His and Kollman both used sculptors to produce their three-dimensional reconstructions [3]. In 1899, Kollman went on to reconstruct the face of a stone-age woman from Auvenier, France, which is considered the ‘‘first real scientific recon-struction,’ ’ because Kollman used soft tissue thickness mea-surements from local women and used a technical plan to carry out the reconstruction [5], even later receiving praise fro