Carl Koppelman
Carl Koppelman is an American professional accountant and unpaid volunteer forensic sketch artist. Since 2009, Koppelman has drawn over 250 reconstructions and age progressions of missing and unidentified people. Early life and death fascination Koppelman has attributed growing up in the 1970s, when there was a growing coverage of serial killers, to starting his fascination with crime and unsolved mysteries. Koppelman has also attributed several key incidents as formative memories. The first of these happened when he was 9, during the 1972 Summer Olympics, when terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes. Koppelman has cited this as being one of the earlier memories of the evil that people do to each other. The next key event happened in 1977, when Koppelman was 14. 17 year old John LaMay, a friend of Koppelman's brother, was killed by the "trash bag killer" Patrick Kearney. This incident directly impacted Koppelman's sphere of community. The third notable incident did not directly impact Koppelman, but was a formative experience for him nonetheless. In 1979, when Koppelman was 16, 16 year old Lucinda Lynn Schaefer was killed by the "tool box killers" in neighboring Redondo Beach, California. Koppelman remembers following news of the case in the newspaper. Adult