the article with real vs. made pictures is about the method by some university person, while the police are using a company.
the method MIGHT be the exact same, but is doubtful.
basically what the genome will tell is just ethnicity(color, nose shape etc sterotype stuff really). basically what I'm getting at is that a VERBAL description made from the same information could be more useful - and yeah I'm pretty sure the coppers in case knew already that the dna was a "black male". now we have a sims(1) quality picture to go with that... I mean, fuck, why even include the hair in the picture except as a color marker?
and heck, you know, they couldn't match the face with 50 persons.. 50 is a whole lot smaller than "the world".