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Certified Forensic Death Investigator Program - AFI-LLC Newsletter March 2021
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Terry Cox, CLI – past NALI National Director – passes 02/04/2021
(Diane Cowan, CLI - National Association of Legal Investigators)
It is with an incredibly heavy heart that I report to you that our dear friend and fellow NALI member Terry Cox passed
away. Terry was an absolute gentleman to all who he encountered. Terry was a true friend who would stop what he was
doing, no matter the inconvenience to lend an ear or help in any way he could.
Terry was a Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) and past National Director of the National Association of Legal Investigators,
and a Certified Criminal Defense Investigator (CCDI). Terry worked as the defense investigator in Tennessee vs. Mary
Carol Winkler - charged with first degree murder for shooting her preacher husband. The evidence presented by the
defense of the abuse, the jury found her only guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
Terry always talked about your kids and grandkids, and at times we swamped some grandkid stories. Like others, we
have several great memories of Terry. One was in Nashville, after an arduous day of the Nashville Five CLI testing and
Dean learned he passed. He and Terry were in an elevator and Terry had told someone he would "See all ya'all later" and
Dean had to ask - ya'll vs. all ya'all. Then, when we were traveling in our RV of the time and stopped on the way to
Memphis for the NALI conference, Terry and Teresa met us at one of the local favorite places for a good dinner and they
shared the sites to must see. He also shared with Dean a book his uncle wrote about his time in WWII - knowing Dean am
big in the study of WWII - and how his uncle met Audie Murphy between battles.
1968 - Forensic Evidence Solves a Crime
Bernard Josephs returns to his house in Bromley, England, and finds his wife Claire lying under the bed, her throat
slashed and severed to the spine. Defensive wounds to her hands appeared to be caused by a serrated knife. No weapon
was found at the Josephs’ house, and police had no other clues to go on. However, the murder was solved, and the killer
convicted within four months, through solid forensic investigation.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/forensic-evidence-solves-a-crime
1881 - Plea Bargaining Gains Favor in American Courts
Albert McKenzie pleads guilty to a misdemeanor count of embezzlement in Alameda County, California. McKenzie had
originally been charged with a felony for taking $52.50 from the sewing-machine company for which he worked.
However, rather than go through a trial, the prosecution and defendant agreed to a plea bargain, a practice that was
becoming increasingly common in American courts.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/plea-bargaining-gains-favor-in-american-courts
Investigation of the Location Tracking Data of the Capitol Rioters
(as privacy advocates target the use of public records, by professional investigators, for legitimate purposes – we have
this tidbit, well known already to professional investigators… your cell phone metadata is used by government to track
you. Not just the US Capitol riots, to track individual and group movement specifically ongoing to the COVID lockdowns)
You’re being tracked — around the web, sure, but also in real life: the apps on your smartphone are constantly feeding
data into the digital advertising market, where it’s bought and sold by hedge funds, financial institutions, and marketers.
A new report in The New York Times underscores the horrifying implications of the system, featuring location data
mined from the rioters who sacked the US Capitol on January 6th, leaked by an anonymous source in the industry.
-- continued at www.theverge.com/2021/2/5/22268669/location-tracking-data-capitol-riot-nyt
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