Post by northernjustice on Apr 27, 2018 15:58:21 GMT
DeAngelo is clearly bald on top from his current arrest photo. Not simply "thinning old man hair", but bald. The DeAngelo license photo of him that looks to have been about 15-20 years earlier shows he had very little hair on top then as well.
His 1973 Exeter police photo shows him with a hard side-part, but what I notice about this photo, especially knowing he would eventually be bald, is that it's not your typical side-part of the era but the very early stages of a comb over. Often men in the early stages of balding will begin doing a hard side-part to cover up a receding hairline and bald spot, though it is nowhere near the embarrassing "barcode" look we associate with full-blown combovers. Given the flatness on top and how unnaturally straight the hair sits on his forehead (especially compared to younger photos that clearly show his hairline), it's likely this was one of these "early stage combovers" by 1973.
You can also see what looks like a subtle line separating the first quarter-to-half-inch of hair on the forehead from the rest on top, indicating that the front of the hair is grown out longer than the rest of the hair and combed hard to the side (hence the unnatural line on the forehead) to cover up the receding hairline, whereas the rest of the hair is combed slightly forward as well as to the side. Men can often go many years with this general style without their growing baldness being obvious as long as they keep their hair styled with product in it.
Given that this photo is from 1973 and that he was going through his 30s to early 40s when committing crimes, a period when most balding men begin to show overt signs of baldness, it is likely that he had less hair during the EAR phase than we previously believed. I am posting this not because I feel like doing an analysis of some guy's hair, but because it is important information when considering POI sketches, potential photos of DeAngelo/EARONS, etc.
His 1973 Exeter police photo shows him with a hard side-part, but what I notice about this photo, especially knowing he would eventually be bald, is that it's not your typical side-part of the era but the very early stages of a comb over. Often men in the early stages of balding will begin doing a hard side-part to cover up a receding hairline and bald spot, though it is nowhere near the embarrassing "barcode" look we associate with full-blown combovers. Given the flatness on top and how unnaturally straight the hair sits on his forehead (especially compared to younger photos that clearly show his hairline), it's likely this was one of these "early stage combovers" by 1973.
You can also see what looks like a subtle line separating the first quarter-to-half-inch of hair on the forehead from the rest on top, indicating that the front of the hair is grown out longer than the rest of the hair and combed hard to the side (hence the unnatural line on the forehead) to cover up the receding hairline, whereas the rest of the hair is combed slightly forward as well as to the side. Men can often go many years with this general style without their growing baldness being obvious as long as they keep their hair styled with product in it.
Given that this photo is from 1973 and that he was going through his 30s to early 40s when committing crimes, a period when most balding men begin to show overt signs of baldness, it is likely that he had less hair during the EAR phase than we previously believed. I am posting this not because I feel like doing an analysis of some guy's hair, but because it is important information when considering POI sketches, potential photos of DeAngelo/EARONS, etc.
