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Inside the Los Angeles Regional Crime Lab: An Interview with Dean Gialamas

Jan Burke and DP Lyle welcome Dean Gialamas, Director of the Los Angles County Sheriff's Department's Crime Lab, to the show to discuss this unique lab, what it’s like be be a crime lab director, the new federal forensic science commission, and more!

Dean Gialamas is the former director of the Orange County Crime Lab, the current director of the LASD crime lab, and was recently appointed to the first-ever National Commission on Forensic Science. He is a past president of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors, and the president-elect of the California Association of Crime Lab Directors.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department of Scientific Services is an ASCLD/LAB-International/ISO 17025 accredited laboratory that operates from 10 facilities and employs over 300 personnel. It serves a population of six million residents and over 100 local, state, and federal agencies.

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FBI Special Agents: What Do These Guys Do?: And Interview with George Fong, FBI Retired

Join Jan Burke and DP Lyle as they welcome retired FBI Special Agent George Fong for a lively discussion of exactly what FBI agents do.

BIO: George Fong spent 27 years with the FBI where he was involved with things such as white-collar crime, foreign counterintelligence, bank robberies, drug trafficking, and violent crimes. He then retired and is currently the Director of Security for ESPN.

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Working the Crime Scene: An interview With Forensic Specialist Lisa Black

Join Jan Burke and DP lyle as they discuss working the crime scene with forensic specialist and crime fiction author Lisa Black

Lisa Black is a forensic specialist who is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists, the International Association for Identification, the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts, and is certified by the American Board of Criminalistics. She has testified in court over 50 times. And, oh yeah, an excellent fiction writer.

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Burning Down the House: An Interview with Fire Investigator John Lentini

John Lentini will educate us about scientific fire investigation, what can be learned from examining the scene of a fire, and why improved training and scientific approaches to fire investigation are so important.

John Lentini, author of Scientific Protocols for Fire Investigation, is one of the leading fire investigators in the U.S. He is the president and chief investigator of Scientific Fire Analysis, LCC. He is a certified by both the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI) and the National Association of Fire Investigators (NAFI). and is a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Criminalistics, with a specialty in Fire Debris Analysis. He was a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2009 President’s Panel on Scientific Integrity. He has authored over 3000 technical reports and testified in over 200 cases since 1975. He has testified for both Plaintiffs and Defendants, and as a neutral court-hired expert. He has appeared onFrontline, 20/20 and other television programs.

How does forensic science help us in the aftermath of disasters such as plane crashes, floods, hurricanes and other events that result in mass fatalities? We find some answers in this episode, when D.P. Lyle and Jan Burke interview Paul Sledzik.

Trained as a forensic anthropologist, Paul Sledzik began his career at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC, as a museum technician. By the time he departed the museum in 2004, he had become a curator with responsibilities over the museum’s unique and historic anatomical and pathological collections. From 1998 to 2004, he served as the team commander for the Region 3 Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. In the response to the events of September 11, 2001, he led the DMORT team in the identification of the victims from the crash of United flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Paul joined the National Transportation Safety Board’s Transportation Disaster Assistance Division in 2004 as a medicolegal specialist and in 2010 became the division director. The division coordinates access to information and services to support victim and family members impacted by aviation accidents and accidents in other transportation modes.

He has served as a consultant and advisor to federal and non-governmental agencies on issues of human identification and disaster response. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, his scientific articles have appeared in professional journals and textbooks. He has participated in the response to over 30 mass fatality events and transportation accidents.

LINDA FAIRSTEIN

SHOW TITLE: Sex, Lies, and Crime: An Interview With Sex Crimes Expert and Best-Selling Author Linda Fairstein

BIO:

Honors graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Former prosecutor and one of America’s foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children.

For three decades, she served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for twenty-five years.

She was the lead attorney in the famous the Robert Chambers "Preppy Murder" case.

She is an internationally bestselling author of a series of crime novels, which feature Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper.

She is also the author of a non-fiction work. Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Fairstein is a media consultant on the issue of the criminal justice system and crimes of violence against women for major networks such as CNN, MSNBC, and cable affiliates.

She continues to practice law as a pro bono representative of victims of violence.

Dr. Max M. Houck is an internationally recongnized forensic expert who has worked for the FBI LAb, at a medical examiner's office, in the private sector, and in academia. His casework includes the Branch Davidian Investigation, the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon, the D.B. Cooper case, and the West Memphis Three case, among hundreds of others. He served for 6 years as the Chair of the Forensic Science Educational Program Accrediation Commission (FEPAC) and serves on other committees, including for Interpol. Dr. Houck has published widely in books and journals. He is a founding Editor of the journal Forensic Science Policy and Management and has also co - authored a textbook Dr. Jay Siegal, Fundamentals of Forensic Science. In 2012 he was in the top 1% of connected professionals on Linkedin.

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Cyril Wecht is an American forensic pathologist. He has been a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, but is perhaps best known for his critcism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

He has been the president of both the American Academy of Forensic Science and the American College of Legal Medicine and curently heads the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. He served as County Comissioner and Allegheny County Coroner & Medical Examiner serving metro Pittsburgh.

This is one of the best interviews you will ever hear.

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Deadly Doctors, Killer Nurses and other Medical Miscreants. Crime and Science radio is proud to have Bea Yorker on the show today. Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Los Angeles. This is the college that includes CSULA's forensic science program. She is also known for her own research into Munchausen by proxy, her landmark study of medical serial killers, and her publications on other topics that bring law, psychology, medicine, and ethics together.

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"The Art and Science of Law Enforcement: An Interview with Robin Burcell."

We are so pleased to be joined today by Robin Burcell, who is the author of award-winning crime fiction -- including this year's The Kill Order, featuring FBI Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick. Robin also spent nearly three decades working in law enforcement: she has worked as a police officer, a forensic artist, a hostage negotiator and a detective.

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