In 2011, the NSW Police Homicide Squad discovered the remains of a young woman in the notorious Belanglo State Forest.
Unable to make a positive identification, they called on Dr Susan Hayes to undertake a facial approximation (popularly called facial reconstruction) of the woman’s remains.
This month Dr Hayes discusses the methods used to estimate the young woman’s facial appearance, why they were applied, and following the woman’s identification in 2016, which of these methods were found to be effective, and which were not.
