Cecil Ison, a resident of Morehead, Kentucky, collects baby dolls and decorates his yard with them. He calls himself a Forensic Anthropomorphologist, meaning he studies crime done to humanlike shaped objects, in other words, baby dolls and mannequins. Ison, a Vietnam veteran and a former Forest Archeologist for the Boone National Forest, started this hobby when he came across a baby doll with bullet holes in its forehead. He decided something had to be done, so he opened his home to abandoned and unwanted dolls.
“You know how Galileo looked at the stars and said, “God, I wish I was an astronomer?” Well, there was a need, there was a void, for people looking into the trauma on these anthropomorphs. ”