Five years ago Connie Culp’s husband blasted her in the face with a rifle and then shot himself. Both survived; the husband went to prison and Connie lived without cheeks, a nose, the roof of her mouth, or one of her eyes. Doctors in Cleveland would perform 30 operations on her, removing hundreds of shotgun pellets and bone splinters from her face, recreating cheeks from her ribs, and forming an upper jaw from a piece of her thigh. And in December, they transplanted the face of a recently dead woman onto hers. Yesterday her identity and the cause of her disfigurement, which had been kept secret, were revealed. (See the stages of her reconstruction, which are graphic, here.)