Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

Clay and Bones follows Lisa Bailey’s extraordinary career as an FBI forensic artist, from the aftermath of 9/11 to sculpting the faces of the unidentified dead, while battling the Bureau’s entrenched culture of sexism and retaliation.

Just two months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Lisa Bailey began her career as an FBI forensic artist.

She threw herself into the work, and over the next eighteen years handled hundreds of cases: unidentified remains pulled from shallow graves, sexu...