University, where he earned a degree in police science. Pratt says, “I started painting again. I got a couple of drawings in magazines and then galleries. I had work in galleries all over the country, but I was doing the work really fast due to my law enforcement career.” And law enforcement noticed Pratt’s drawings, and asked him to question a woman. An assailant attacked her and killed her husband. Harvey made the sketch, and the police caught the killer. Pratt’s law enforcement career spanned over 50 years, and included the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation from 1972 to 2017, where his career in forensic art quickly blasted off. During his law enforcement years, he was the first to sketch color composite drawings with colored pencils. And he developed an interview technique for witnesses and victims. It was a questionnaire about how to discover deception. And he was a pioneer in soft-tissue reconstruction. During his career, he listened to over 5,000 witnesses and victims, and Harvey Pratt and Dee Cordry. Photo courtesy Dee Cordry. then recreated the faces of the assailants. And “Harvey always understood that the OSBI’s job he made 2,000 soft tissue reconstructions. He is to provide expert assistance to Oklahoma drew hundreds of sketches showing what missing law enforcement. He was once the interim children would look like as adults. Ranked as a director. But no matter what post he was top U.S. forensic artist, Harvey’s cases spanned assigned to, he took the time to help agencies a plethora of the who’s who of high-profile with investigative forensic art. Harvey criminals such as Osama Bin Laden, Ted Bundy, combines investigative experience with expert Terry Nichols, and well-known serial killers. And he interviewing skills and natural artistic ability. even helped identify kidnappers in South America. Law enforcement agencies still reach out to His work resulted in thousands of arrests and the him. It was my good fortune to work with him and be his friend. Harvey often tells me stories identification of hundreds of unidentified remains. of his Cheyenne ancestors. After many years He retired from the OSBI in 2017 having worked as of research, I completed a manuscript, and I a forensic artist, a narcotics investigator, criminal have begun to look for a publisher. The book investigations, administration, criminal records is a detailed account of Cheyenne history and and information divisions, and having served in the Harvey’s great-grandfather Edmund Guerrier.” positions of assistant and interim director. Dee Cordry Chosen as a member of the Council of 44 Historian of Cheyenne and Arapaho heritage Cheyenne peace chiefs in 1996, Pratt assumed the Canadian County, Oklahoma name “White Thunder,” honoring his great-great- great-grandfather. And he was inducted into the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in 2012, followed by induction into the Oklahoma Military 23 35