She was a prominent forensic sculptor who co-pioneered a new method for reconstructing faces, both contemporary and ancient. She worked on over 300 cases, with an estimated 70 percent success rate of positive identification, as police used photographs of her work to generate leads and give a name to a John or Jane Doe. She recreated faces of victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, sculpted a bust of President Kennedy for a congressional committee investigating his assassination, and reconstructed the face of pharaoh Tutankhamen and Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador.