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Justice South Africa | EP 73 | Stanley Bezuidenhout

Stan Bezuidenhout is a Military Intelligence Veteran, a former Specialist Police Reservist, a Forensic Specialist, Court expert Witness, Trainer, Published Author, and Public Speaker with more than 20 years’ experience. He has served private, commercial, and government clients internationally in South Africa, large parts of Southern Africa, in Canada, the Middle East, and in the USA. He has provided training in Forensics and in Risk Mitigation all over the world, and he has been featured on a variety of Television Programs, in South Africa, and in printed media and online, internationally. It is his background in Special Investigations, Military Intelligence, and Police Operations that has established him as a leader in Transport Risk Mitigation, Investigation, and Training. Always eager to empower, educate, and inform, Stan’s passion for this field cannot be missed. Join us as we discuss many aspects of justice in South Africa. 

Originally aired on November 17, 2022

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Jeff Gurvis is an independent bloodstain pattern analyst from Chicago who has his roots at the Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory where he served as a latent print examiner, crime scene coordinator and bloodstain pattern analyst.  He has taught several basic and advanced bloodstain classes for the FBI and the National Forensic Academy at the University of Tennessee as well as in service classes for Baltimore PD, Illinois State Police, Washington DC Metro among several others. Jeff also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Identification (IAI) and is also a member of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts.  He is active in casework in both latent print examination and bloodstain pattern analysis.  In 2012, Jeff co-founded Visionations, where they developed CrimePad, a mobile based criminal investigation and crime scene software solution. 

Originally Aired on Nov 3, 2022

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Andro Vos spent 15 years at The Netherlands Forensic Institute as the Program Director, Policy advisor to the National Prosecutor office, and the Ministry of Justice and Security. In May 2022, he opened the first Wildlife Forensic Academy in Cape Town, South Africa which is the world's first platform for mobilization of wildlife forensic knowledge and expertise. This state-of-the-art facility assists in combating wildlife poaching and trade and stop the extinction of endangered species and to stop the spread of deadly pathogens from animals to humans.

Originally aired on Oct 6, 2022

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Tobin Tanaka  has been a forensic document examiner (FDE) with the Government of Canada since 1993. He received his training (1993–1996) and worked as an FDE at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service between 1993 and 2000. In 2000, he commenced working as an FDE for the Canada Customs & Revenue Agency, which was transferred to his current employment at the Canada Border Services Agency in December 2003. He has been a part-time instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology for the Questioned Document Examination course for forensic science students. He is a member of many organizations and was also editor of the Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (2014–2018), and he is currently on the roster of Justice Rapid Response, a global entity that provides specialized justice experts to assist with international investigations.

Originally aired on Sep 29, 2022

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Forensic Data Science | Forensics Talks Ep. 28 | Geoffrey Stewart Morrison | April 8, 2021

Dr Morrison is a Canadian forensic scientist who specializes in forensic inference, statistics, and in forensic speech science. Join us as we discuss the importance of data in a forensic context and how we are currently in a paradigm shift in the evaluation of forensic evidence.

Originally aired on: April 8, 2021

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Forensics Ghana | Forensics Talks Ep. 38 | Yahaya Sumara Sulley | July 15, 2021

Yahaya Sumara Sulley is a Forensic Science Educator and a Senior Research Assistant in the Forensic Science Department of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale-Ghana . His recent paper outlines how forensic science has gone "dark" in Ghana and many citizens are not aware of the hope that forensic science brings to solving crimes and bringing justice to society. Join us as we discuss the development and state of forensic science in Ghana.

Originally aired on: July 15, 2021

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Much of what you may have heard about AI has been applied to digital forensics, but what about all the other disciplines like anthropology, firearms examinations, latent prints, bloodstain pattern analysis and footwear impressions? Please join us as Etienne Pillin speaks to us about the role that Artificial Intelligence has to play in many other disciplines in Forensics.  

Originally aired on April 22, 2021

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Selma J. M. Eikelenboom-Schieveld is a forensic scientist at Independent Forensic Services (IFS) in Colorado. She received a degree from the College for Social Work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1976, followed by 10 years’ experience in psychotherapeutic treatment.  Dr. Eikelenboom graduated from medical school from the Free University in Amsterdam in 1992. She worked eight years as a resident in surgery, emergency medicine, obstetrics, and internal medicine. From 2000 on, she focused on medical forensics as coroner for the city of Amsterdam and at the biology department of the Netherland’s Forensic Institute.  In 2003, she started IFS out of the Netherlands and in 2011 she moved to Colorado and opened a second laboratory.  Through her forensic medical work, she became interested in a possible association between DNA variants, psychoactive medication, and violence. That interest became the emphasis of her work, leading to a research project with the University of Denver and a PhD in March 2021.

Originally aired on May 27, 2021

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The 2017 Stockholm terrorist attack took place on the 7th April in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. A hijacked truck was driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed into a department store. Five people were killed, and 14 others were seriously injured.  Join us as Håkan Larsson tells us about his experiences docuenting this very large crime scene.

Originally aired on June 3, 2021

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Bryon O'Neil is the Sheriff’s Deputy with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office in Clackamas, Oregon since 2006.  Bryon has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice & MBA in Marketing, both from the University of Portland. He has been a Certified Crash Reconstructionist since 2010 and has investigated more than 280 crashes with over 100 of those being fatal.  He is the lead Reconstructionist for the Clackamas County Crime Reconstruction and Forensic Technician (CRAFT) Team

Originally aired on October 20, 2020