Sharon Long is a forensic artist who sculpts faces out of clay onto human skulls belonging to victims of murders that have rendered them unidentifiable. Sharon has been doing this for 20 years and has even helped identify the crew of the H.L Hunley, a Confederate submarine sunk during the Civil War.
It's a bit creepy but extremely fascinating.
Here's the full article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/15/skull.lady/index.html?iref=newssearch