44 Times Police Sketches Were So Bad They Became Unintentionally Hilarious

This sketch is based on the recollections of eyewitnesses, who say the suspect wore a motorcycle helmet at the time of the robbery.

"While the sketch provided by the witness may have appeared amateurish and cartoonish, it, along with the distinctive physical descriptors, jogged the memory of at least one investigator to provide a potential suspect name," Lancaster Police wrote in their report.

Witnesses believed the suspect was disguised under a wig and fake mustache.

The man is described as black, approximately 6' tall with a slim build and high cheekbones.

The artist’s rendering is based on descriptions provided by an elderly woman. Witness told cops that the suspect wore a knitted hat and had teeth in need of a dentist’s attention.

Described as a heavy-set black male.

It was a sketch drawn by a witness and given to police.

The witness described the robber as being in his 20s or early 30s with sandy to brown-colored shoulder-length wavy hair, police said.

The suspect is described as white, five feet eight inches tall, of medium build with short greying hair. He was chubby in the face and wore blue jeans, a grey or blue coloured long-sleeved shirt and a baseball cap.

Here’s the full description given by the victims, which admittedly wasn’t all that much for the artist to go on: “6 foot tall or a little taller, approximately 25 to 30 years old with no or very thin facial hair, and a muscular build.

“His nose was straight with no flare in the nostrils. He has short black hair and a round face, with tattoos covering both arms and a tattoo on the left side of his neck.”

An 11-year-old Connecticut girl used her doodling skills to sketch out a suspicious man for cops — and the likeness led him to be charged.

“He was wearing a black hoodie. He had on black skinny jeans, had really grungy hair. He just looked gross.”

Clean-shaven man with a large curly blonde mane.

The suspect was described as a Black male in his early 20’s, around 6’ tall with a thin build, perfectly aligned yellow teeth with dark gums and a black mole under his eye. He was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt with a black Nike swoosh symbol. He was wearing the hood up to partially obscure his face. He was also wearing black shorts, black crew length socks.

Described as 6ft tall with short black hair, a round face and tattoos on his arms and neck. 

The e-fit of a man, as drawn from memory by witness. The sketch was described as ‘an egg with a side-parting’.