Expert Witness No. 1985

Professional Profile

• Extensive background in teaching criminal justice, criminology, and criminal investigation courses
• Extensive experience in analyzing discovery case files
• Extensive experience in analyzing crime scenes
• Author of numerous books and academic journal articles on the psychology of criminal conduct, psychological profiling and serial killers
• Law enforcement and criminal investigative experience
• Qualified as expert witness
• Meticulously organized and detailed focused; excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Criminal Investigative and Forensic Science Consultant
1998 to Present
President, Trial & Forensic Consultancy, Inc.

Sample of Clients

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Sample of Forensic Investigative Consultancy

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Law Enforcement and Investigative Training

• Principles and thought processes of crime scene investigation, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 2011
• Forensic Fingerprint Analysis Basics, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 2010
• Certified Medical Investigator III, American College of Forensic Examiners, 2008
• Blood spatter analysis, American College of Forensic Examiners, 2008
• Death investigations, Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine, Richmond, VA, 2006
• Death investigations, Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine, Richmond, VA, 2005
• Forensic Entomology and Death Investigations, Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine, , Richmond, VA, 2004
• Examined 300 solved serial murders’ case files during my Ph.D. research, 1995, 1996
• Introduction to VICAP, Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN), Newton County Sheriff’s Department, 1994
• Investigating Serial Murder, Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN), Newton County Sheriff’s Department, 1994
• Specialized Training in Criminal Investigations, Henderson Police Training Academy, , Henderson, NC (22 hours), 1987
• Police Information Network Computer Training, Butner Public Safety, North Carolina, Butner, NC (12 hours), 1987
• Chemical Tests for Alcohol Operator, North Carolina Highway State Patrol, Henderson, NC, (48 hours), 1986
• Criminal Investigations I and II, North Carolina Police Academy, Henderson, NC, 1986
• Special Law Enforcement Certification, North Carolina Police Academy, Henderson, NC, 1986
• Court Procedures and Evidence, North Carolina Police Academy, Henderson, NC, 1986
• Patrol Operations, Vance-Granville Community College, Henderson, NC, (9 hours), 1986
• Firearms, Vance-Granville Community College, Henderson, NC, (8 hours), 1986
• Law Enforcement Basic Police Recruit Training, State of North Carolina Department of Criminal Justice Training Standards, Henderson Police Training Academy, Henderson, NC, (300 hours), 1985
• Fingerprinting Law, Submission of Fingerprints, and how to take legible inked impression, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, (4 hours), 1985

Presentations

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Education

• PhD Psychology with a concentration in criminal investigative psychology
• University of Liverpool, Institute for Investigative Psychology, Liverpool, England, 1994-1998 British Psychological Society (BPS) Approved Program and Recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA), Degree completed at main campus in Liverpool, England
• Dissertation: Inner Themes-Outer Behaviors: A Multivariate Model of U.S. Serial Killers' Crime Scene Actions
• M.S., Criminology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1994
• B.S., Behavioral Science, Minor, Criminal Justice, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN, 1993
• A.S., Criminal Justice Technology, Vance-Granville Community College, Henderson, NC, 1985

Professional Work Experience - Academic/Teaching Experience

Criminal Justice Instructor, University, August 2011 to Present

Departmental Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh, NC 27610, August 2008 to June 2010

• Supervised three assistant professors, developed annual departmental budgets, developed departmental reports in preparation for SACS accreditation visit, Advised students, Established external relationships with law enforcement and forensic science community
• Courses: Criminal investigations, Intro to forensic science, police organizational management, law enforcement, victimology, forensic science and the law, Intro to criminal justice, taught in the Gateway adult degree program, Henderson, NC.

Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707, August 2007 to May 2008, Department of Criminal Justice, One year fixed term contract

• Courses: Criminal investigations, legal and forensic ethics, police management theory
• Advised students

Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, August 2006 to May 2007, One year fixed term contract

• Courses: Introduction to forensic science, criminal investigations, forensic impressions and markings, policing and diversity, crime scene investigations and criminal profiling
• Advised students

Assistant Professor, Methodist University, Department of Justice Studies, Fayetteville, NC August 2001 to May 2006

• Courses: (day, night, summer, on-line): Intro to criminology, Intro to forensic science, victimology, corrections, investigative process, organized crime, internship, criminal profiling , deviant behavior
• Advised students

Research Associate Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, Anchorage, AK December 1999 to June 2001

• Courses: criminal investigation, administration of justice, criminal profiling, serial murder, seminar in criminal violation
• Grants awarded

Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator, Developing Alaska’s informed offender prioritization system: Searching for patterns in Alaska’s justice information system and sex offender registry, Grant funded by Bureau of Justice Statistics, October 2000, Grant award amount ($49,603)

Project Manager, Assessing the accuracy of geographical data in the Alaska sex offender registry using Arc View GIS program, University of Alaska Anchorage’s Statistical Analysis Center (SAC), Grant funded by Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 1999

Certified Interviewer, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program, NIJ grant, 1999 - 2001

Adjunct Professor, Vermont College of the Union Institute, Montpelier, VT, Online graduate psychology degree, 1998 to 2003

• Field faculty advisor/mentor for students enrolled in the Master of Arts Degree via distance learning with a concentration in criminal psychology
• Provided students with scholarly help of a scientific nature of direct relevance to criminal psychology, through the Internet
• Trained on Embanet online learning software

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Indiana State University, Department of Criminology, Terre Haute, IN, August 1993 to July 1994

• Courses: Intro to criminology, criminal justice procedures
• Assisted undergraduate students with assignments and essays
• Administered weekly tests and graded tests

Project Coordinator, National Institute of Justice Grant, Newton County Sheriff’s Department, Kentland, IN, 1993 to 1994, Paid Graduate internship, Indiana State University

• First NIJ grant to develop community policing in a rural area
• Set up community policing satellite offices in three regions of Newton County
• Wrote police training procedures for community policing in Newton County
• Developed budgetary guidelines for showing how the $100,000 grant was being spent
• Wrote quarterly reports on the progress of the grant

Early Career

Police Officer, Oxford Police Department, Oxford, NC, 1985 to 1989

• Drug undercover work
• Dispatcher
• Breathalyzer operator

Academic Honors And Awards

• University of Liverpool international scholarship, 1998
• Indiana State University academic scholarship, 1993
• Alpha Phi Sigma, National Criminal Justice Honor Society, 1993
• North Carolina Sheriff’s Association Scholarship, 1984

Academic and Professional Publications

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