This is an I-Heart podcast.

Hey, girlfriends. I just wanted to give you a heads up that this episode includes

conversations about rape, murder and graphic violence. But if you do listen, you'll hear

some crime fighting with an easel. And don't come for me if we swear, this is a safe space for that kind of thing.

Lois is at home after work one evening, getting ready to put the kids to bed when her phone rings.

The detective on the homicide called me, and he said, you did it, girl, you got to come down here.

So I took the kids to the sitter and went down.

When she gets to Houston Police Station, the detective has news for her.

So he tells me, we wouldn't have solved the case without that drawing.

Lois has just done her first piece of forensic art.

I'm talking about a witness remembering a face they saw, the face that represents the

person that did the horrible thing they saw.

She's just sketched the perpetrator of a dreadful murder, based on the fragmented memories of a hysterical bystander.

It's her first assignment for the Houston Police Department, and it caught the killer.

Overwhelmed, she has to decompress in her car.

It was to such a burden.

I knew I would do whatever it took to help somebody get justice.

You see, Lois has a special connection to this case.

This guy was murdered the same way I was, nearly murdered.

Lois uses the trauma of her near-death experience to find a new purpose.

She's on her way to become the world's most successful forensic artist.

She'll help thousands of people to find justice, one face at a time.

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