Anything For A Witness

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Lois Gibson is considered by many to be the most successful forensic artist in the world. Using skills in art, witness interviewing, and facial reconstruction, Gibson has helped solve over 1,200 cases by sketching portraits of both victims and criminals all over the United States. In 2005, she was even placed in the Guinness Book of World Records because of her success in suspect identifications. EIS finds Gibson at her home in Spring, Texas where she tells stories of an early career in modeling, surviving a brutal attack, and her fascination with faces. Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Music by High Aura’d and Mike Shiflet. Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Truth in matter was, stories were everything and everything was stories.
0:06.0	Everybody told stories.
0:08.0	It was a way of seeing who they were in the world.
0:11.0	It was their understanding of themselves.
0:18.0	I get completely, I guess, high. I get a feeling like no drug. It's the most beautiful,
0:30.6	buoyant, confident, happy feeling inside. And I used to not, I used to wonder, what is that? I was embarrassed. I mean, do I enjoy? No, I used to wonder what is that, I was embarrassed.
0:38.3	I mean, do I enjoy? No, I'm not happy people are murdered, but I thought, well, it's because
0:43.3	I get a chance to help and that's true.
0:46.3	You got to know what situation, what frame of mind the witness is in.
0:53.3	Do they love the person that was killed or is it just a stranger?
0:57.0	They don't care?
0:58.0	They see the perpetrator run by or were they tortured for three days by the perpetrator?
1:03.0	So I need to understand that.
1:06.0	And some of them are screaming.
1:08.0	I can remember the face.
1:11.6	That would be a kidnapping.
1:13.6	Those are very traumatizing.
1:18.6	All the successful sketches I've done, all of those sketches were done from a witness that in the beginning of the effort denied that we could do that effort.
1:28.3	They denied their ability.
1:30.3	That's just what witnesses do.
1:36.3	There is no fulfilling way to use your art than to be able to get with it.
1:40.3	And as a victim and pull a vision from their mind and give it to the
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