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An Acquired Taste Podcast

S5 Ep416: How Experts Create Faces from Skulls & Nightmare Podiatry Stories

An Acquired Taste Podcast

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

True crime lovers! Have you ever seen a show where someone’s put a bunch of little depth markers all over a skull to help them turn it into a realistic face? How in the world do they do that? Bethany is here to explain the process of forensic facial reconstruction. Then, wash your damn feet! Kathleen’s sharing some foot doctor horror stories that will remind you: take care of your piggies!

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What We Talked About:

13:36 - Forensic Facial Reconstruction
46:56 - Foot Doctor Horror Stories

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KATHLEEN’S SOURCES:

BETHANY’S SOURCES:
“The Art and Science of the Facial Reconstruction Process” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0LvImAGAg
“Witness real-life forensic art. Reconstructing a face from a skull”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stop laughing, this is erotic.

0:02.0

I'm on a new medication and I think it's making me lose to me.

0:06.0

I would have been a Ted Bundy victim.

0:08.0

Yeah, I had no idea that so many people out there felt the same way.

0:12.0

I did.

0:13.0

Now I want a peanut colada.

0:15.0

An acquired taste.

0:18.0

This is an acquired taste podcast.

0:21.0

I'm Kathleen Heaney, your pool party hosting.

0:24.0

Lavender flavored everything eating.

0:26.0

I accidentally sent my friend Bethany a full nude friend.

0:31.0

And I'm Bethany Watson, your apartment leaving house renting.

0:36.0

I need to lease a car, but there apparently aren't any cars available right now, friend.

0:41.0

And every week Bethany and I get together to discuss our lives, what's weird in the world.

0:46.0

And we invite you to join us this week we're talking about the fascinating science and art of forensic facial reconstruction.

0:54.0

Wow.

0:56.0

A.K.A.

0:57.0

How do they know what a face looks like based on only the skull?

1:01.0

That is the science that I've never really thought too deeply about.

1:04.0

If you've ever watched forensic files during this true crime show sometimes they will show someone in a lab with a skull and little rubber dots all over the skull's face in different thicknesses.

1:16.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:17.0

And how do they know what the thickness should be and where?

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