Crime Scene Reconstruction and Blood Stain Pattern Analysis: The Case of Christopher Vaughn By Bill Clutter Director of Investigations, “Investigating Innocence” The Scene of the Crime Around 5:20 a.m. on June 14, 2007, a man driving to work along the frontage road of Interstate 55 south of Joliet, Illinois encountered Christopher Vaughn, 32, limping…
OBTAINING PUBLIC RECORDS By Steve Vardakis The People’s Right To Know History of Government Business Becoming Public Information In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal” created a series of federal programs and reforms intended to bring immediate economic relief to the country. Under FDR’s administration, many agencies were born to oversee these programs.…
FORENSIC STATEMENT ANALYSIS by Joe Koenig, CFE Author of the award-winning book “Getting the Truth” and “Getting the Truth: I Am D.B. Cooper” “The principles in this article will enable you to distinguish between good and poor denials – making you a better investigator and a better decision- maker.” – Joe Koenig What’s a…
Fetal Kidnapping/Abduction A Depraved and Evil Crime By Vernon J. Geberth, M.S, M.P.S., Fellow AAFSA HOMICIDE AND FORENSIC CONSULTANT Introduction Fetal Kidnapping/Abduction murders of pregnant women for their unborn babies are brutal and savage crimes. The offender literally cuts and rips the fetus from the victim mother’s womb in a bizarre replication of a…