Plastic surgery in Detective Comics and in real life
Batman routinely encountered a veritable menagerie of criminals. The Penguin (Detective Comics #58) was a brazen felon who based his thefts on birds and umbrellas. The Scarecrow (World's Finest #3) was secretly phobia psychologist Jonathan Crane, who used his specialty to commit crimes based on fear. Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Kent turned to crime as Two-Face after a gangster scarred half of Kent's face with acid (Detective Comics #68). Ultimately Kent's face was restored with plastic surgery, and he foreswore a life of crime (Detective Comics #80, Superman Family #211).
Plastic surgery in real life
There was a news report. Among the scores of women who parted with a kidney to buy a better life is Uma Devi, 26. Promised Rs 3 lakh by a broker and a "Dr" Ramesh of Arun Polyclinic in Vadapalani, she donated her kidney so her husband could have plastic surgery to fix the damage an acid attack caused to his face and chest nearly three years ago. But the doc reneged on the deal and she ended up with just Rs 63,000, a sari and a gold bracelet. She used the money to pay off her debts and later filed a police complaint saying she had been cheated.
Television show America's Most Wanted
Then in 1988, the television show America's Most Wanted decided to take on the unsolved case. They hired forensic sculptor Frank Bender to make a three-dimensional clay bust of the fugitive to display on the show. Bender had done several such busts of missing persons and of fugitives, so he was acquainted with what needed to be done. However, updating the appearance of a man by 17 years would require some deep study. It would take more than adding wrinkles.
Bender went to work on the bust, carefully crafting the facial appearance that he believed List would now have. It had its intended effect. After the show aired in 1989, Wanda Flannery called in to insist that someone check out Bob Clark. She had his new address. She felt sure this was the man they were seeking.
FBI agents descended on the office where Bob Clark worked and arrested him. Although he insisted they'd made a mistake, fingerprints affirmed his identity as John Emil List, and he was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder.
Thus, three separate methods were used for fugitive identification and one of them ultimately brought a cold-hearted mass murderer to justice.
NRI Surgeon Dr. Kam Singh gifted her beauty
On 10 January 2007, The Sun claims Goody's sleek new figure is the result of cosmetic surgery.
She allegedly paid £4,500 for the fat removal procedure at the Beau Aesthetic clinic in Leicester. It was allegedly carried out by Cosmetic Surgeon Dr Kam Singh - the same surgeon who transformed Jade's mother, Jackiey, for TV show Extreme Makeover. A source told the newspaper: "She hasn't earned that figure - she bought it. Dr. Singh done cosmetic surgery on racist Goody of Shilpa Shetty in Big Brother
Lost science of India, rediscovered now
In Adi parva, one of the chapters of Mahabharata, it is said that Kauravas were created from pinda [a ball of flesh] which Gandhari delivered after two years of pregnancy. It was then handed over to the sage Dwapayan, which was then divided into one hundred parts and treated with herbs and ghee. The pieces were then covered with cloth and kept in a chamber to cool for two years; out of which the Kauravas were born." There cannot be any other explanation for this…." (Matapurkar BG, Bhargave A, Dawson L, Sonal B. Organogenesis by desired metaplasia of autogenous stem cells. Arch Surg 1998;857:263-7)
A Re-discovery
Stem cell research in India made it to the headlines when the US Department of Health disclosed its interest in funding stem cell research in two Indian Centers - the Reliance Life Sciences [RLS] and the National Centre for Biological Sciences [NCBS].
Lost science discovered: See videos of eight limbed Laxmi’s Surgery
Bush may make dead alive through plastic surgery
Bush is not believable as Sonia and other leaders of Congress in India. He can do anything. He may keep the dead body of any terrorist after managing plastic surgery as Laden. World would not get the relief there after also because ghost of that lying body would be active. Video: Laden look-alike arrested : Who planned plot, and Why?
Drug Lord Zambads Garcia
Ismael Zambada García, one of Mexico's most enduring, powerful drug lords, has had plastic surgery and disguises himself to move throughout Mexico and even to cross into the US. Zambada has survived over thirty four years in the drug world in part because of his ability to forge alliances with other drug cartels.
Because of his control over Sonora and Arizona drug routes and territory, the DEA put "wanted" signs with Zambada's image on two billboards along Interstate 10 in Arizona.
Tijuana's Frontera newspaper (no relationship to FNS) quoted Michael Vigil, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency in Southern California, as saying that Zambada "had plastic surgery and looks very different."
Ismael Zambada Garcia is a U.S. fugitive and the State Department has offered a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest
Sight Recognition
In any case inasmuch as the underworlds appeared to be exploring the possibilities of plastic surgery, it becomes important for police officers to ascertain what alterations can be made, to learn the location of scars which betray reconstructive procedures, and to take steps to prevent interference with law enforcement by means of such an operation
Criminals even get plastic surgery to change not only their appearances but also destroy their fingerprints.
Here sight recognition must be applied to recognize people by recalling their physical characteristics or by comparing them by photographs. Even after the identity of criminal established by fingerprints, the police must rely on sight recognition to make the arrest.
Sight recognition is invariably an acquisition of the experienced detectives. All of them know hundreds of criminals by sight, and some with remarkably retentive memories could recognize and name over a thousand rascals.
The detectives who have studied the range of faces, manners and habits of criminals for years acquire such a comprehensive with the professional rascals of the country that they hardly ever make a mistake in picking out thieves and other criminals at sight, in a crowd. This detective faculty has more than memory behind it. Keen observers have over and over again marked and arrested apparently inoffensive criminals, whom they had never seen before or in person or in pictures. Long experience and sharp eyesight have made them sensitive to the slightest mannerisms and tricks of various species of rascal. There is also almost instantaneous mental process of grouping and comparison. Without any conscious effort of the will, general features and traits of a criminal class comes in to the mind’s eye as a composite photographs and members of any group actually in sight are assimilated or differentiated at a glance. This swift judgment is analogous to that of an expert handler.
Sight recognition of without ticket travelers in Mumbai Local Trains
We may see the success of TTs in catching of without ticket travelers in Mumbai local trains in a huge crowd of incoming outgoing passengers.
Portrait Parle
Let's have a quick look at the Portrait Parle method and then see how some of them have applied to criminal
In 1982 Alfonse Bertillon, a young French anthropologist, sometimes called the father of scientific detection, worked out a system of identification called Portrait Parle or “speaking likeness”, utilizing eleven skeletal measurements which are particularly unchanged after maturity and are not affected by increase or loss of weight.
His "portrait parley" gave a minute description of wanted persons, based on chromatic and morphological determinations, general attributes like stoutness, carriage, voice and social standing, and indelible marks.
This system was a compilation of facial features taken from photographs with descriptive detail provided. Bertillon’s classification provided a basis for modern recall systems that would aid the artist in producing sketches as well as the development of composite kits, catalogs and computer systems.
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