Page 3 - Professional Investigators Day – Debunking Myths - AFI-LLC Newsletter July 2021

Professional Investigators Day – Debunking Myths - AFI-LLC Newsletter July 2021

EVIDENCE INSPECTION AND DOCUMENTATION – ALS AND PC MACROSCOPY
One of the most overlooked services a legal investigator can provide, as a fact finder or expert, is inspection and
documentation of the adverse party’s evidence. This is important in both criminal and civil litigation. We have provided
this service for nearly 15 years. Unfortunately, there is a misunderstanding as to this value to attorneys, legal strategy,
and litigation. Next month we will feature benefits to this process, as well as additional tools our agency uses to uniquely
examine and document evidence for our in-house review and analysis. Primarily for Criminal Defense, and applicable to
Civil litigation, this will walk the investigator through the steps of finding the evidence in discovery, initial examination,
photographic documentation, and special inspection and documentation considerations.

Look for this by the end of Summer - and send us your questions and experiences to share and expand on!

MOLLY BISH MURDER – FROM 2000 TO 2021 UPDATE
In our February 2021 newsletter, we shared an update and documentary hoping to solve this mystery. Here is an update:
'He Hid Amongst Us': Convicted Rapist, Who Died in 2016, Named as Person of Interest in 16-Year-Old's 2000 Murder
A dead Massachusetts mechanic and convicted sex criminal has been identified as the suspected killer of a teen
lifeguard who disappeared more than 20 years ago. Francis “Frank” P. Sumner Sr., who died in 2016, has been
pinpointed as a “person of interest” in Molly Bish’s disappearance. -- Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.
-- continued at www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hid-amongst-us-convicted-rapist-085800725.html
-- also at https://people.com/crime/molly-bish-teen-lifeguard-killed-2000-possible-killer-identified/

Molly Bish’s Murder: How Did She Die? Who Killed Her?
www.DeathCaseReview.com/afi-llc-newsletters/archives/02-2021
Investigation Discovery’s ‘On the Case With Paula Zahn’ and the investigation to search for the teenage girl.
-- continued at www.thecinemaholic.com/molly-bishs-murder-how-did-she-die-who-killed-her

In September 2012 at the NCISS Annual Meeting, the Molly Bish Foundation founded by parents John and Magi Bish,
were presented NCISS’s highest honor, the John J. Duffy Memorial Achievement Award (see www.nciss.org/john-j--duffy-
memorial-achievment-award) for “have by specific deeds and accomplishments, exhibited the highest standards of
conduct and service to the investigation and security services industry.” The Bish’s and their foundation since 2004 (
for their work in Massachusetts and Congress in passing multiple laws to protect children, convict in crimes against
children, and also find and identify missing children.
-- see The NCISS Report, page 25 at www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/7480084/spring-2013indd-the-national-
council-of-investigation-and-

THANKS PI EDUCATION FOR THE THROWBACK WITH HAL HUMPHREYS!
What a fun time this was! Join Hal Humphreys as he chats with Dean Beers, Medicolegal Death Investigator. They'll tell
stories. They'll talk about best practices. You can even learn more about the stories dead people tell.
-- view at https://youtu.be/jJVqQrrAHlg

CASE STUDIES FROM AFI-LLC
Unusual Rural Gunshot Death - Homicide or Suicide?
The circumstances were unusual – alone in his truck, in a very remote area, and only a rifle found by the responding
deputy – in the backseat and muzzle towards the decedent in the driver’s seat. He had a gunshot wound in the left chest
– at an angle not consistent with the trajectory of the rifle. Ruled a Suicide. None of this made any sense to the family.

Individual Background / Assets & Liabilities Investigation - Over $500K Fraud Recovered!
The Court appointed the Public Administrator to protect the interests of an elderly gentleman suspected of being
victimized by a live-in caretaker. The caretaker had official documents of real property and water rights transfers (the
latter being very valuable in the Colorado agricultural county), as well as bank accounts and other assets. In addition, she
was identifying herself as his spouse. At a hearing, the subject was questioned under oath and several facts of our multi-
page report and over 50 pages of primary source documentation was presented.

-- What happened in these cases? See more details and outcome at www.DeathCaseReview.com/sample-cases

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