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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 dead, bitemarks, and serves as an expert witness for the justice system if required. 

 Jim was deployed to help with the Disaster Victim Identification for the Canterbury Earthquake in 2011, and to the Christchurch Mosque Shootings and the Whakaari White Island Volcano eruption in 2019. He has also worked in the Pacific helping the identification and repatriation process for US Marines killed during the Battle of Tarawa.

Originally aired on Nov 5, 2020

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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, access to products and training to a variety of law enforcement agencies and select clients worldwide. Join us as we ask Michael about how Forensic Facial Imaging makes a contribution to Forensic Investigations.

Originally aired on Jan 27, 2022

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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 in officer involved shootings.  Research in Professor Simon's laboratory uses methods ranging from real-world and video-based approaches to computer-based psychophysical techniques, eye tracking, simulator studies, and training studies. Join us as Daniel Simons discusses the implications of human perception and memory and how we should be careful about the weight we place on eye-witness testimony.

Originally aired on Oct, 14 2021

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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 spread this technology across the country, enabling his public safety colleagues to better serve and protect their communities. Join us as Ron discusses how ShotSpotter works and how it can help in detecting gunshots quickly and accurately. 

Originally aired on Nov. 4, 2021

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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 worked on some complex cases that involve testing, and research using the latest in instrumentation.

Originally aired on Oct, 28 2021

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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 the International Association for Identification since 2012 .

On April 15, 2013, during the 117th annual Boston Marathon, two homemade pressure cooker bombs detonated at 2:49 PM near the finish line of the race. The bombs exploded 14 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart killing 3 people and injuring hundreds of others, including 17 who lost limbs. Michael Connolly was directly involved in the crime scene investigation and documentation of evidence. 

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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 Forces Operations involving video evidence, Grant has provided
technical assistance for high-profile investigations around the world. He was the Technical
Manager for a large-scale high-profile criminal investigation involving over 5,000 hours of
video evidence, directing the work of fifty forensic video analysts. He currently trains investigators on strategies and techniques for the accurate interpretation of video evidence, including tracking the movements of targets captured to proprietary digital video.

Originally aired on October 1, 2020

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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 future.

Originally aired on Feb. 18, 2021

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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 in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Berlin, and the Australian Government and the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial Centre. Join us as we discuss his experiences in the examination and analysis of human remains in forensic and historical contexts. 

Originally aired on Oct, 7 2021

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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 WTC7 building which was the third building to have collapsed on September 11, 2001.  A recent study from Dr. Hulsey challenges the official explanation from NIST.  Dr. Hulsey explained to us his findings from his 3 year study of the collapse of WTC7.

Originally aired on Nov 19, 2020