Forensics Talks

Send a text  Patrick Senft is an Associate Researcher with Armament Research Services (ARES), where he is responsible for the monthly released 3D-printed Firearms Technical Intelligence Briefing. In addition, he is conducting research on cluster munitions, landmines, and chemical weapons. Previously, Mr. Senft held positions at the Flemish Peace Institute , working on arms diversion and traffickin...

Send a text Mr. Johnson received his bachelor's degree cum laude from Kansas State University in 1975 and was awarded the Putnam Scholarship and inducted into Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He attended the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, Kansas where he received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1978. A practicing plaintiff’s trial lawyer through the 1980's, Mr. Johnson develop...

Send a text Celestina Rossi is a Senior Crime Scene Investigator with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Crime Laboratory in Conroe, Texas.  She has a Master Peace Officer’s License with 21 years of law enforcement experience.   Since her promotion to the crime laboratory in 2002, she has been court qualified as an expert in latent print examination, bloodstain pattern analysis, crime scene re...

Send a text Edward Nordskog is a Fire Death Scene Expert who retired from being a full time Arson/Bomb Investigator with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department since 1997.  .  He has investigated 2,100 arson cases and arrested/prosecuted 300 persons for arson related offenses.  He has also testified as an expert in fire/arson on over 95 cases.  Involved in over 60 fatal fire investigations and 46 se...

Send a text The VirtoScan project was started in 2015 at the Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine. The project is dedicated to the research and development of automated 3D imaging systems for whole-body documentation in X-ray computed tomography and autopsy suites. Join us as Sören Kottner discusses how they are standardizing two-dimensional (2D) and 3D whole-body documentation and to applying it...

Send a text Working as a bloodstain pattern specialist with the Reykjavík Metropolitan police, Iceland, CSI unit since 2001 and police officer and detective since 1990.  Ragnar Jónsson has been a forensic consultant for film and "CSI" shows who has been able to make appearances in Icelandic movies and TV series. Join us as Ragnar discusses his passion for his work in both forensics and f...

Send a text Thomas Kimbriel is a retired law enforcement officer and part time instructor at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, TX.  Thomas has developed a set of protocols to produce fingerprint identifications in decedents in very late stages of decomposition using macrophotography.  Join us as we discuss the importance of using fingerprints to help identify missing persons and disaster vic...

Send a text Dr. Laura Fulginiti has her PhD from the University of Arizona in 1993. She is a Board-certified forensic anthropologist at the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner Since 1991.  She has adjunct faculty status with Arizona State University and a Clinical Associate Professorship in Pathology at the University of Arizona, School of Medicine. Dr. Fulginiti's research researc...

Send a text Dr Stephen Bleay is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science in the School of Applied Sciences at London South Bank University. He specialises in fingermark enhancement and imaging, with interests in the interactions between trace evidence, the surface it is deposited on and the environment it is exposed to. •His main research interests are in the interactions that can occur between the e...

Send a text Eugene Liscio is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada and is the owner of ai2-3D, a consulting company that specializes in 3D forensic documentation, analysis and visualizations. Eugene has testified in court in both the US and Canada utilizing 3D technologies such as photogrammetry and laser scanning, utilizing interactive 3D crime scenes to aid judges and juries. Eug...

Send a text Martino Jerian is the CEO and Founder of Amped Software, widely recognized as the leading company for image and video forensics for public safety and national security, with customer in 100 counties worldwide. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste (Italy) in 2005 (summa cum laude) with a thesis on forensic image processing and he founded Amped Software in...

Send a text Tiffany Roy is a specialist in Forensic Biology and also law. She has served as an expert witness in over 100 cases and has processed thousands of DNA cases with over 13 years in private and public labs. She is currently the President of ForensicAid and she also instructs undergrads at Southern New Hampshire University, University of Maryland, University College. Join us as we discuss...

Send a text Najat Abou Chacra is a Military Judge in Lebanon working on high profile cases such as terrorism and cybercrimes. She was the appointed the first female judge in the history of the Republic of Lebanon to occupy the position of Investigative Judge at the Military Court. As an investigative judge, Najat plays an active role in determining the guilt or innocence of a defedant. She also wo...

Send a text John Lentini began his career in forensic science with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory in 1974.  He joined the private sector in 1977, and for 28 years he was the lead fire investigator for Applied Technical Services of Marietta, Georgia. He has personally conducted more than 2,000 fire scene inspections and has appeared as an expert witness on more than 200 occasi...

Send a text Chris Fabricant leads the Innocence Project's Strategic Litigation Department, whose attorneys develop and execute national litigation and public policy strategies to address the leading causes of wrongful conviction, including eyewitness misidentification, the misapplication of forensic sciences and false confessions.  Fabricant is one of the United States’s leading experts on fo...

Send a text Andrew Fredericks is a certified Forensic Video Analyst and the Co-Founder, CEO, and Technical Director for iNPUT-ACE: a video evidence software solution that is used by law enforcement agencies world-wide. Andrew continues to conduct forensic video analysis casework throughout North America and abroad. As a forensic video analyst, Andrew has been qualified as an expert and testified i...

Send a text David Dustin is currently the Technical Director for FARO Public Safety and works very closely with FARO’s R&D groups in the areas of software and hardware development. Since the integration of 3D Laser scanning, David has gone on to become a recognized expert in the areas of 3D Laser scanning for crime scenes, as well as in the investigation of vehicular related events working num...

Send a text Barry A. J. Fisher served as the Crime Laboratory Director for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position he held from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. He began his career in criminalistics with the Sheriff’s crime lab in 1969 and worked in a wide variety of assignments. His current interests concern the interrelationship between forensic science and the law along w...

Send a text Harry A. Milman, PhD, is a consulting pharmacologist, toxicologist, and expert witness with over forty years of experience.  Join us as we speak about the role of toxicology in forensics, pharmacology, and his latest book, the science behind the deaths of famous people.   Originally aired on January 21, 2021

Send a text Dr Alfredo E Walker is a registered Forensic Pathologist (category A) of the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OFPS) who is based within its Eastern Ontario Regional Forensic Pathology Unit (EORFPU) at the Ottawa Hospital General Campus, Ottawa, Canada.  Join us as we discuss the importance of pathology to forensics. Originally aired on February 4, 2021

Send a text Jeffrey W. Muttart is currently the Director of Research and Consulting Services for Crash Safety Research Center, LLC. He is also an Adjunct Instructor at Northwestern University Center for Public Safety where his research interests include pedestrian walking speeds, vehicle acceleration choice, nighttime recognition distance, headlight illumination related to nighttime recognition, d...

Send a text Eddy De Valck has worked as a Forensic Odontologist since 1979, having received his Master of Dental Sciences from Catholic University Leuven in 1977 and attended Belgium’s Ministry of Justice’s School for Criminology. He has participated as an expert in about 20 major disaster investigations since 1987 ( e.g. train, plane, and boat disasters; 2004 Tsunami in Phuket, 2014 MH 17, 2016 B...

Send a text Glenn Langenburg is a certified latent print examiner and owner of Elite Forensic Services, LLC. Previously, he worked at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for 18 years and has experience with crime scenes and bloodstain pattern evidence. He was certified as a general criminalist by the American Board of Criminalistics and has lectured and hosted workshops nationally and in...

Send a text Karen Woodall is an Assistant Professor and Forensic Toxicologist within the Forensic Science Program at the University of Toronto. She graduated in 1996 from the University of Bradford, UK with a Ph. D. in Pharmacology. She worked as a Forensic Toxicologist at the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto for 20 years before joining the University of Toronto. Her research interests inclu...

Send a text Richard Gage has been investigating the events and collapse of the World Trade Center Towers since 2006.  Join us as we look at the forensic evidence of collapses and what science can tell us about the terrible tragedies of September 11, 2001. Originally aired on January 14, 2021