Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune

1. Someone helped put murderers behind bars, solved the mystery of why jets kept crashing and contributed mightily to the rebound of the nearly-extinct whooping crane. But you probably haven’t heard of this person. One guess why.

2. Yup, she’s a woman.

3. Roxie Laybourne is the fascinating subject of magazine journalist Chris Sweeney’s “The Feather Detective,” about her half-century of work at the Smithsonian Institution and the FBI.

4. If “Feather Detective” is made into a movie, Frances McDormand should play Laybourne, who’s characterized as kind, grouchy, funny and brilliant. She’s also a survivor of spousal abuse who describes herself as an inattentive mother.

5. As a child in North Carolina, her favorite dish was boiled chicken head.

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