Post by mark on Aug 1, 2018 19:11:07 GMT
@looking4justice :
No argument here about DeAngelo wearing wigs (very likely true) and the difficulties in being an eyewitnesses. My point on the other thread was that something still seems to be amiss. There were perhaps other factors involved for why the composites were so consistently off. A few possibilities come to mind, but they're vague and speculative, and I need to kick them around some more in my head.
About those lousy composites and sketches that don't look much like DeAngelo.....
You can point out similarities here and there, but the overall impression comes nowhere close to matching. Facial perception being a holistic process, we need the various parts to work together. They do not in my opinion, except for Verla Street, regardless of hair style.
The Maggiore sketch looks totally like a young Helmut Schmidt, a German-looking character straight out of central casting. The Billy Mumy sketch looks more like Bella Lugosi, Jr. than Joseph James DeAngelo, Jr. The New San Ramon is actually as good as they are, which unfortunately isn't saying much.
And cleopatra , I respectfully disagree with you about the "FBI / Panda Eyes" composite. That was my favorite right up until the moment the case was solved. It blended the characteristics of many others in a way I thought worked. So much for that. DeAngelo's twin it is not. The composite makes you think of Owen Wilson as The Minus Man, not somebody who actually looks more like, say, a fleshy Jack Palance or a highly sullen Dom DeLuise.
The best "DeAngelo with a wig" sketch might actually be the much-maligned Surfer Dude, aka the "fake composite" that was long discredited and was a major motivation behind Ford Perfect's Contextualized Composites blog. And referencing Woofy's great analogy, how did DeAngelo ever get by without coming across as Rip Taylor?
I totally agree, something serious is off, some features are consistently wrong (chin, nose, eyebrows).
And, there's at least two sketches that resemble more you-know-who than JJD (just sayin')
But at the same time, I think at how JJD looked like 3 different persons in old pictures, the eyes always changing. Some people have this trait, they always seem different in pictures. Unusual bone structure, skin reflectivity, and heavily influenced even by small weight changes.
To date, the only glaring match is this Verla Street sketch / 1973 Exeter pictures. Imo.