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Midweek training episodes are short-focused training to help you become a better investigator and human. These short tips are a production of the Coroner Talk podcast and the Death Investigation Training Academy. Training tips are given each week by an Academy instructor or industry peer.

Midweek training episodes are short-focused training to help you become a better investigator and human. These short tips are a production of the Coroner Talk podcast and the Death Investigation Training Academy. Training tips are given each week by an Academy instructor or industry peer.

A few years ago, the third Monday in January was labeled Blue Monday by many experts in the mental health field. But no matter what day of the week it occurs on, Anita Agers-Brooks, common trauma expert, and author of Getting Through What You Can't Get Over, believes January 15th is a good barometer to predict the most depressing day of the year.

If it takes about three weeks for a mindset to change, earmarking January 15th, 2024 ( or the third Monday) as the most depressing day of the year may just make sense. According to Brooks, based on several pieces of research she's studied, as well as based on extensive interviews she's conducted with everyday people, there are several contributors that solely, or linked with others, can throw even the hardiest soul into the pit of depression on or around this date.

Read more here

Death Investigator Magazine

Midweek training tips are short focused training to help you become a better investigator, and human. These short tips are a production of the Coroner Talk podcast and the Death Investigation Training Academy. Training tips are given each week by an Academy instructor or industry peer.

Midweek training tips are short focused training to help you become a better investigator, and human. These short tips are a production of the Coroner Talk podcast and the Death Investigation Training Academy. Training tips are given each week by an Academy instructor or industry peer.

In this episode Darren has a conversation with a student about spontaneous suicide. They discuss what it is and does it really exist. Referred to sometimes as Acute Suicide or Impulsive Suicide, the debate is whether there are suicide deaths by people who just decide for no apparent reason to end their life and no reasoning is known or can be found during investigation.

Also discussed in this episode is an invitation to you, the listener, to be a guest on the show. If you have a topic to discuss you feel others in our field would find interesting, or you have experience training on a specific topic and would like to share with others, reach out to the show and lets get you on as a guest.

Medicolegal Death Investigator

Medicolegal Death Investigator training is held twice per year at the Oasis Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield, Mo. To learn more about the course, and the exciting changes and upgrades, go to ditacademy.org/mldi

After having to identify her husband by his severed head, Jan Canty started a life journey of discovering what being a survivor of violent crime is like. In this episode we discuss the crime that changed her life forever and what she has done to survive this journey.

One accomplishment is her new book What Now - Navigating the Aftermath of Homicide and Suicide. This work is a guide, not only for survivor families, but also as a resource to investigators and support teams in how best to assist survivors.

Her new book can be found on Amazon and her web site at the link below.

https://jancantyphd.com/

In this episode I talk with Jeff Gentry about the importance of understanding blood stains. You don't have to be an expert to recognize something is not adding up. We also discuss his new online courses and a new Blood Pattern Guide he has written.

Links to all material discussed can be found below.

New Guide to Blood Patterns

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Guide-Bloodstain-Pattern-Analysis/dp/B0BLQSFDX9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JCZH3L5RPIGO&keywords=gentry+blood+pattern&qid=1685798433&sprefix=gentery+blood+pattern%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1

Online Courses

Introduction to Blood Pattern

https://www.ditacademyonline.org/courses/bpa-introduction

Understanding Blood Patterns and What they can tell you

https://www.ditacademyonline.org/courses/blood-pattern-analysis

Death Investigation Academy

https://ditacademy.org/

In this episode, I introduce the all-new and expanded Medicolegal Death Investigator classroom course. The course has a new location, new training, and many additional perks and features.

You can learn more about the course and the updates at:

https://ditacademy.org/mldi

On this episode, I am a guest on the Don't F*up the Crime Scene Podcast with Kevin Hearst. You can find more of his show at - https://www.spreaker.com/show/dont-fuck-up-the-crime-scene

I also introduce the all-new Medicolegal Death Investigator classroom course. New location, new training, new experience. Check it out at https://ditacademy.org/mldi/