Forensics Talks

Send a text Amoret Whitaker is the Program Leader and a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Forensic Studies program. She specializes in Forensic Entomology and since 2004 has undertaken forensic casework throughout the UK for many police forces and forensic providers, attending crime scenes, deposition sites and post-mortems, analysing data and submitting reports, and attending court if required. Jo...

Send a text SA O’Connor is currently the Principle Consultant at FedSquared Consulting, providing instruction and consultation on a variety of Counterterrorism topics to both Government and private sector clients. After a 23 year career with the FBI, SA O’Connor coordinated investigations related to violent criminal actions by Domestic Extremist.  Join us as we discuss some very well known cases a...

Send a text Bryan Chiles is the Sr. Investigations Engineer at Axon who has the the responsibility to manage and conduct investigations for Axon customers, attorneys, or civilians. Bryan's focus is on investigative tests and processes, including research and scenario-based experiments, determining the highest forensic value of data and physical evidence relating to Taser energy weapons and Ax...

Send a text Lorna Dawson is currently Principal Scientist and Head of Forensic Soil Science at the James Hutton Institute and visiting Professor at RGU. She is a registered expert with the National Crime Agency and works with police forces, lawyers and agencies in soil-trace-evidence provision and regularly attends court as an expert witness. Lorna is passionate about the effective communication o...

Send a text Jeremiah Morris is the Forensic Scientist Supervisor, Trace Evidence and Crime Scene Investigation Technical Leader of Trace Evidence and Bloodstain Pattern Analysis at the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory. He is an active member of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts and has been an advocate of how bloodstain pattern analysis contribut...

Send a text Mohammad AlShamsi is the Head of Firearms and Toolmarks section at Dubai Police. He graduated from the first INTERPOL Young Global Police Leaders Program in 2019 and is a member of numerous international associations such as the Association of Firearms and Toolmarks Examiners AFTE where he is the point of contact for the Middle-East and West-Asia region and the first Arabic Certified F...

Send a text Dan Nash is the co-founder of the Human Trafficking Training Center and a retired Missouri State Trooper where he spent 27 years investigating narcotic/vice crimes, violent crime, and human trafficking. Dan was the Sergeant of the Human Trafficking Unit and the enforcement supervisor of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force.  Join us as we discuss the...

Send a text Roland Angle is a civil engineer and is currently the President and CEO of AE911Truth; an organization that has been investigating the collapse of the World Trade Center 7 Building, and have been working with the engineering community to explain the reasons why the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s reports on the collapse of the WTC7 is deficient. A previous interview wi...

Send a text James Wigmore has worked as a forensic toxicologist for over 29 years at the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto, Ontario.  He has testified in over 700 criminal cases throughout Canada and in numerous personal injury civil cases and coroner’s inquests.  He has published over 70 scientific articles in forensic toxicology which have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, and the...

Send a text Joe Bryan, was a high school principal in 1985 and had been attending an educational conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 miles away from his home when his wife was murdered.  Bryan was subsequently convicted of murder and spent over 33 years in prison based in part on faulty bloodstain pattern analysis evidence. A detective working on his case wrote in a sworn affidavit submitted to...

Send a text Dr. Theresa Stotesbury, Forensic Chemist from Ontario Tech University has been studying different aspects of blood such as time of deposition from DNA degradation, extreme temperature effects, blood substitutes, animal blood and much more! Originally aired on April 15, 2021

Send a text As a long time engineering consultant, professional photographer and instructor, Tom Vadnais has specialized in forensic photography with a focus on evidence from vehicular accidents.  Join us as Tom speaks to us about his passion for photography and the role that forensic photography plays in civil and criminal cases. Originally aired on April 1, 2021

Send a text George Reis is the president and owner of Imaging Forensics, Inc. and has been providing expert witness services and training in forensic image analysis, forensic video analysis, and forensic and technical photography through Imaging Forensics since 2004. He performs various tasks to images and video such as authentication, analysis, enhancement and comparisons.  He has worked on, and...

Send a text Doug Perovic is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. A renowned authority on forensic engineering and failure analysis, Dr. Perovic has led many investigations in Canada and the United States, often serving as the voice of the profession in the media on high profile cases. He developed and teaches the only undergraduate and gr...

Send a text Dr. James Goodrich is an active and experienced forensic odontologist, in Cambridge, New Zealand. His day to day work is as a private practice dental surgeon, but his main interests lie in forensic science. In his role as a forensic odontologist he provides opinions to the police and coronial services on the identification of deceased individuals, age estimation for the living and the...

Send a text Michael W. Streed is an award-winning, internationally recognized, Forensic Facial Imaging Expert based in the Los Angeles Metro area. For 42 years, he’s combined his extensive law enforcement experience and artistic skills to help law enforcement agencies solve their toughest cases. Michael is also the owner of SketchCop Solutions, where he provides remote services and consultancy, ac...

Send a text Professor Daniel Simons has been researching the cognitive mechanisms of our experience of a stable and continuous visual world and on change blindness. These failures to notice what is often obvious to others suggests that we have a limited interpretation of our visual world.  This is especially important when dealing with eye-witness accounts of crimes, suspect identifications, and i...

Send a text Ron Teachman has been a ShotSpotter representative for the past six years.  He is a former police officer of thirty-eight years, and served eight of those years as a Chief of Police over two cities, New Bedford, MA and South Bend, IN.  As the Chief, Ron was responsible for the installation and adoption of ShotSpotter in each of those cities.  In his role at ShotSpotter today, Ron helps...

Send a text Jarrod Carter started training to practice accident reconstruction in 1989. He earned his Ph. D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2002 and began practicing as an accident reconstruction and biomechanical injury analyst full time in 2000. In his three decades in this field, he has earned a reputation for being specialized in the area of vehicle rollovers and has wo...

Send a text Michael Connolly is a 24-year veteran of the Boston Police Department. During his time with the Department, he has worked as a patrol, &  bike Officer.  Since 2001, Mike has been assigned to the Crime Scene Response Unit (CSRU) and has been the Lead Training Coordinator since 2007.  He has been a trained Ten Print Examiner since 2001 and is a certified Crime Scene Investigator with...

Send a text Grant is a Certified Forensic Video Analyst and a contract instructor at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA. He has testified over 300 times in courts throughout the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and in other parts of the world; many of his projects involve the collection of visual intelligence during civil disturbance and riot events. As a consultant for Major Crime and Joint...

Send a text Alice White it a a well known educator when it comes to Friction Ridge analysis.  She has published many papers on fingerprint distortions and analysis.  She is also an active member of the AAFS, IAI and many other organizations where she shares her knowledge and expertise.  Join us as we discuss issues surrounding Friction Ridge Analysis and where this discipline is headed for the fut...

Send a text René Gapert is a Consultant Forensic Anthropologist and Director of Human Remains Services Ireland in the Republic of Ireland where he has worked over the past 20 years on human remains identification and missing persons cases.  He has also been involved in identification of burn victims during the Grenfell Tower Fire in London and has assisted in skeletal analyses to various Coroners...

Send a text Dr. Hulsey focuses on working with students to achieve a high quality education. His research is in the fields of bridge engineering and effects of temperature extremes on structural systems like composite wall panels for buildings. His work blends a strong experimental component with the fundamentals of theory.  Dr. Hulsey and his colleagues have been investigating the failure of the...

Send a text INTERPOL unveiled I-FAMILIA in June of 2020 and has applied cutting-edge scientific research and the DNA of relatives to identify missing persons and unidentified human remains around the world. Join us as we speak to François Xavier Laurent who is the DNA Database Manager at INTERPOL about how I-FAMILIA has already been used to connect families with their loved ones. Originally Aired...