MTTA 122: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush

Jennifer is a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist who aims to shed light and hope in the dark places of the human experience.

The television or movie screen is the closest most people will ever come to witnessing the forensic world. But Jennifer actually lived it. As a daughter of a medical examiner whose office was in our home, she investigated my first fatality, an airplane crash, when she was 8 years old, picking up pieces of skull and brain matter with her father who simply saw it as an anatomy lesson. This would be the first of many coroner lessons she experienced over two decades.

After careers in journalism and teaching, Jennifer turned seriously to screenwriting where she began to connect her coroner world to her writing world. She sought out a degree at the Forensic Science Academy in Los Angeles to gain more forensic training and earn the friendship of LA’s top CSIs, fingerprint specialists, DNA scientists, and detectives.

Today, she lives in Los Angeles and works as a screenwriter, author, speaker and forensic specialist.

Latest Book

Books by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush

A Coroner’s Daughter Mystery Series

Show Notes

Forensic Speak: How to Write Realistic Crime Dramas

Cold Case Foundation

Hole in the Woods Trailer

Video Interview