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daily-express-weekend-25-04-2010-pag-07 |
World Exclusive:
Changing face of missing girl
By Mike Parker in LA
This is the little girl the whole world longs to see alive and well.
The image is of
Madeleine McCann just eight days
away from the third anniversary of her disappearance on a family
holiday in the Portuguese resort of
Praia da Luz.
It was created specially for the Daily Star by forensic computer
age-progression expert Jovey Mae Hayes employing the techniques she
has used in kidnapping and missing persons cases for police across
America.
Maddie's appearance will have changed significantly, according to
Jovey Mae, since she vanished on May 3, 2007 just days before her
fourth birthday.
For a start, she will be somewhere between four and seven inches
taller than parents
Kate and Gerry remember her. And Maddie's face
will be longer than that of the cure, chubby-cheeked infant seen on
millions of "Missing" posters.
"She has high cheek bones just like her mother," sais Jovey Mae,
joint owner of ageprogression.org in Michigan.
"These will appear to be even more pronounced than at the time of
her disappearance.
Angelic
"Girls tend not to shed the last of their facial 'puppy fat' until
well into their teens but her face will look noticeably longer, as
will her nose.
Consequently, those lovely wide, angelic eyes we all remember from
those sad posters will seem to be slightly smaller because while the
rest of the face grows, the eyes don't."
Despite numerous false leads and several possible sightings of
Maddie since her disappearance, her distraught parents have never
given up hope that one day she will be returned to their family home
in Rothley, Leics.
Jovey May said, "I would urge people to focus strongly on Maddie's
new facial features in the image rather than her hair, which I have
kept in the same longish style and the same colour."
Jovey Mae has also 're-dressed' Maddie. She said, "She would
probably be wearing jeans most days and maybe lace-up deck or tennis
shoes.
"It's almost a 'uniform' for many kids these days but nothing that
would make her stand out in a crowd."
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