Parkman was a frequent walker on the streets of Boston, collecting his rents. "His gaunt figure was easily identified and not readily forgotten." A sketch of Dr. Parkman as he was last seen was published in the "New York Globe's" account of the trial. While the bones could not be definitively identified as Dr. Parkman, Wyman contributed to the belief that they were Parkman's by providing the court with a "diagram, exhibiting the position in the skeleton, of the bones found and showing, (in some degree,) what would be necessary to complete the body." This rendering was remarkably similar in stance to the striding picture of Dr. Parkman and indeed labeled "Restoration of Dr. Parkman's Skeleton," no doubt influencing the jury.