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[ThaJinx]

[FAVORS] Advice for Bad Cop

[krystyn]

The spectacles turned out rather nicely!

[thunderclap8]

I interpreted things a bit differently - I thought the 50 years requirement means that the grave has to be 50 years old (IE buried 1955 or prior), not the person's age buried there.

I based my detective work on the graves themselves - the fact that the death date was during the depression, family members nearby, last names/maiden names, graves that looked as if they'd been moved to this cemetery, etc.

As for the sketch, mine was decidedly low quality. Jinx, yours is multiple orders of magnitude better than mine was. Kudos! Thankfully, Lucky didn't seem to mind.

[Speaker]

I also interpreted it as the grave needed to be more than 50 years old as the small favor says "Find me a grave at least 50 years old." (Emphasis mine)

As to research, it is certainly not necessary to accomplish the task. Learn as much from the tombstone as possible and draw the sketch. So long as the sketch is of the face, any level of quality/similarity to police sketches is probably fine.

On the other hand, I had a lot of fun tracking down info on someone who had died before 1955. I live in a small country town in Mississippi with limited presence online, at least compared to somewhere like San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, etc. So, if you have the time... I recommend the research effort for your personal edification.

[ThaJinx]

see, if I'd read the thing properly, I probably would've done a 50 year grave instead of a 50 year person. Woops.

But they approved it, so I'm not complaining.

[ahecht]

Here is what I submitted (and got approved):

[konamouse]

Here is my submission: