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Agency Information & Principals' CVs - Expert Analysis / Consultations
Current information on our primary agency website for services, forms, and CVs.
‐‐ Your Investigators ‐ www.DeathCaseReview.com/Principals‐Bios
‐‐ Dean's CV ‐ http://dab‐cv.DeathCaseReview.com (updated July 2024)
‐‐ Karen's CV ‐ http://ksb‐cv.DeathCaseReview.com (updated July 2024)

We bridge the crime scene and autopsy with Expert Medicolegal Consultations in Civil, Criminal
and Insurance Interpleader litigation, as well as Family Questioned Deaths. Forensic and
Medicolegal Death Investigations reviewing and analyzing "the totality of the circumstances of
the fatal or non‐fatal event and the competency of the official investigation, with respect to
death investigation protocol and standards."

This 3‐minute video will show you, “How we can help you and your clients – today!” ‐ https://youtu.be/7auubrNZYb4

Together We’re Better!

Featured Course (July): Motor Vehicle Death and Serious Bodily Injury Investigations
Each month the featured course is 15% off (our largest discount, except to our Association Partners and members is 25%)

(2.5 hours CE) This covers the foundational basics of Motor Vehicle Death and SBI
Investigations. This is about the investigative importance of non‐forensic (and semi‐
forensic) process of documentation and review analysis.

www.investigativecourses.com/courses/motor‐vehicle‐investigations

Contact our agency for this month’s discount code – associates@InvestigativeCourses.com

July Commentary: Facts and Forensics
In our world of evidence, the foundation is Forensics. From digital to anatomical,
crime scene to interview – Forensics plays a role, often multiple, in your cases.

What is Forensics? That depends on who is asking and why they want to know.

Essentially, it is simply the application of [fill in the specialty blank] to the law. It
is finding the evidence, analyzing the evidence and reporting the evidence –
evidentiary fact finding.

For us, F.O.R.E.N.S.I.C.S. is the Facts Or Reasonable Evidence Necessitating Systematic Investigative & Critical Solutions.
Your investigative education, training, background and experience are vital to the clients and the strategy of their legal
solutions on behalf of their clients. We are all familiar with Forensics – and with the reality, not fiction.

We are finders of fact and solutions critical to our clients. In Forensics we do so by understanding that science does not
lie, but the misapplication of scientific methods to our investigations may produce fouled solutions. Are there issues
with the official investigation and evidence? Possibly, however, it is not intentional to look for errors – the purpose is to
see what the facts and evidence tell us. What is most often the case is missed evidence or evidence applied to the
information incorrectly – non‐factual presented as facts.

One of the tasks of almost every investigator – particularly those involved in civil and criminal litigation – is to review,
deconstruct and analyze any underlying official investigation – such as a motor vehicle collision, workplace incident or
premises liability. You have the advantage of experience and cognitive skills outside the box; it is what professional
investigators do best. Although there are limitations, such as time and budget, there is also have latitude – finding and

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