FBI-Trained Forensic Sketch Artist Tim McPhillips Puts a Face to Unsolved Crimes

Cook County sheriff’s Detective Timothy McPhillips was at home when he received a jarring message: A teenage girl had just been found fatally stabbed in her home in Indian Head Park.

“Listen, there’s a real bad homicide,” the FBI-trained forensic sketch artist recalled being told. “You need to get over there now.”

Investigators had few leads other than a woman who said she saw a suspicious man near 14-year-old Kelli O’Laughlin’s home on the afternoon of the attack, Oct. 27. During the next four hours, as impatient colleagues poked in their heads for updates, McPhillips sat with the witness in a cramped, windowless room and painstakingly developed a drawing of a man with close-set eyes…”

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