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What clues could Vidocq possibly discover, sixteen years after the crime?
“Although it was off a highway, it was sort of isolated,” says Fleisher.
The scene of the crime in this case doesn’t tell police much about the
identity of the victim. So, the investigators focus on another part of
the murder mystery.
That’s where Frank Bender’s expertise comes in.
Bender can take a handful of bones and create the likeness of a murder
victim. “Identifying people is a major step because once they get the person
identified and know who they are, then they can backtrack,” he says.
Bender took the bones of Princess Doe and created
a bust. While he is working to identify the victim, another Vidocq member
concentrates on possible suspects, which comes down to a process of elimination.
Behavioral linguist Nate Gordon plays an important
role in reading the thoughts of suspects. Gordon has the astounding ability
to look at someone’s written account of a crime and tell if a person is
lying.
Gordon relates to one suspect’s confession involving
the murder of an infant. “Looking at the pronouns, the fact that the pronoun
is missing from ‘baby,’ meaning it should be ‘my baby’ or ‘our baby,’ he
talks about ‘the baby’ and ‘my dog.’ So psychologically he’s showing us
that he’s definitely separated himself from the baby.”
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Since 1990, Vidocq has solved 30 of the toughest cases in the country,
including the murder of Yardley resident Jim Dunn’s son. “If it hadn’t
been for the Vidocq Society, it would still be sitting on the shelf back
there without any resolution. As a result of having Vidocq, we were able
to get a conviction and put some justice behind my son’s murder,” says
Dunn.
