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Connie Culp was shot in the face by her husband in a failed murder-suicide in September 2004 outside a bar in Ohio. He survived as well and was convicted in 2005 of aggravated attempted-murder with a 7-year prison sentence. Culp forgave her husband at the sentencing and said she will be waiting when he gets out of prison.

The shotgun blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. She underwent 30 operations prior to the face transplant on December 10, 2008. Surgeon Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors in a 22-hour operation which replaced 80 percent of Culp's face with the face from another woman who had recently died.