Terminally ill Frank Bender, renowned for helping to identify homicide victims, stands by wife Jan, who is battling lung cancer. "If I go in eight months," the 68-year-old Bender says, "I'll still feel fulfilled." The plaster casts behind the couple in Bender's South Street studio are from fine-art bronzes.
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For 30 years, the forensic sculptor has peered into skulls and seen souls. With no scientific training and no college education, he became an internationally heralded "recomposer of the decomposed," an artist who solves crimes while providing comfort to strangers.
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