MEBANE -- A terminally ill artist is trying to help authorities in North Carolina solve the 10-year-old case of a missing boy whose skeleton was found in a wooded area.
Officials unveiled a facial reconstruction by renowned Philadelphia artist Frank Bender.
Before the painting, detectives had no picture to help identify the boy, who was believed to be 10 years old when he died.
Bender, 68, is credited with solving dozens of murders and disappearances. He is living under hospice care with mesothelioma linked to asbestos exposure.
On Sept. 25, 1998, a groundskeeper for a billboard company was mowing along Interstate 85 in Orange County and discovered the scattered remains of a skeleton with tube socks and new boy's sneakers.
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