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The Newnan Coweta Art Association (NCAA) hosts Forensic Artist Marla Lawson for its monthly program.
The GBI enlisted Lawson's talents in 1997, but the self-taught artist's career began decades before. For 15 years, she rendered composite drawings of suspects based on descriptions by their victims for the Atlanta Police Department. In 1991 though, she decided to call it quits.
That hiatus was brief. A robbery at a sandwich shop where she worked forced her to break out the pad and pencil once again.
"I went home that night, and sketched the robbery suspect and turned it over to the local authorities," said Lawson. "I realized that the private sector was no place for me. I needed to be doing something to help others."
And help is what Lawson did. The suspect, who robbed the eatery, also hit a gift shop down the road. Based on her drawing, the robber was apprehended.
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