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Great!

First day on the job here at the F.B.I., and I've got a mess on my hands.

Someone hacked into Langley's mainframe and scrambled twelve of the mugshots that we have on file, and it's my job to reconstruct them, restoring these records of dangerous criminals to their original states.

The Director told me that from now on anyone who forgets to make sure that the mugshot logs are backed up before going home for the night will be waterboarded with extreme predjudice.

I've arranged the mess on my desk as follows:

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(click to enlarge)

In the near future I may assemble them in flip-book fashion so that I can see each image in rapid succession. Let's see how this goes.

I need some help figuring out how to rearrange the pieces in order to find out who these hoodlums are.

Can you help me identify these twelve troublemakers?

Now that the puzzle is solved and we have several nice reconstructions, here's my flip-book:

flipbook

Didn't want my GIF to go to waste and some of them are pretty funny...

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The Image:

enter image description here

The Names:

1. Mel Gibson
2. Charlie Sheen
3. Elvis
4. Paul Reuben
5. Justin Bieber
6. Robert Downey Jr
7. OJ Simpson
8. Kobe Bryant
9. John Belushi
10. Paris Hilton
11. Lindsay Lohan
12. Reese Witherspoon

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  • A match I think except one I did not know - your #8 - I know the name, but I only play the game I don't watch it :) Shouldn't have spent so long faffing in MS Paint :p – Jonathan Allan Jun 04 '16 at 19:39
  • @JonathanAllan I'm not 100% sure too for some of them. But your unscrambled picture is perfectly sliced... I was lazy and did it automatically :) – kamenf Jun 04 '16 at 19:44
  • Automatically? With what? – Jonathan Allan Jun 04 '16 at 19:50
  • @JonathanAllan Gimp, vertical and horizontal guidelines (which didn't pass evenly through all tiles edges because they are not precise), then with plugin "Guillotine to layers". I mean only slicing is, well, semi-automatic. – kamenf Jun 04 '16 at 20:06
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    Probably also worth noting that all of these people would have real mugshots, since they've all been arrested for various reasons. – Dan Russell Jun 04 '16 at 20:16
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    This is noted in the question itself. – kamenf Jun 04 '16 at 20:22
  • Well (and quickly) done! The images were all found searching Google Images with the query "celebrity mugshots." Not sure if are all really authentic mugs or not, but no reason to believe otherwise. – Chowzen Jun 04 '16 at 20:48
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They are

the mug shots of famous (American?) people

Here's an unscrambled version: enter image description here

Not really people I know much about, so some may be wrong and I don't know bottom-left, but...

Elvis Presley ---- Lindsay Lohan(?) ---- OJ Simpson ---- Reese Witherspoon(?)
Justin Bieber(?) ---- Charlie Sheen ---- Robert Downey Jr. ---- Paul Reubens(?)
? ---- John Belushi ---- Mel Gibson ---- Paris Hilton

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So, I just joined so I can only attach 1 picture, so here is my completed set of images, thought I did make saves at each step along the way because I thought it would be interesting.

enter image description here

No clue who these felons are, but I'm sure the data base will have their identities.

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Just finished!

Charlie Sheen|Paul Reubens|Justin Bieber|Reese Witherspoon
John Belushi|Robery Downing Jr.|Mel Gibson|Elvis
O J Simpson|Kobe Bryant|Paris Hilton|Lindsay Lohan
unscrambled

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