Melissa Cooper

Expert Forensic Sketch Artist whose renditions serve entities such as Law Enforcement Agencies, Educational Institutions, Scientific Research, and Production Companies. Examples of services: * Composite Sketches * Age Progressions and Regressions * Surveillance Image Enhancements * Postmortem Illustrations * Facial Reconstructions * Photo comparisons / Facial recognition In addition to police artistry, Melissa performed work for the Page Museum - La Brea Tar Pits where she rendered the first 2-D facial reconstruction on La Brea Woman, the only human excavated from that site who dates back 9,000 - 10,000 years. She also worked in the field of paleontology by excavating, cleaning and preparing fossils. Melissa has been providing forensic art services since 2006 and also hold a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science