DEATH INVESTIGATIONS
TACOMA, WA | JUNE 12 - 16, 2023
The Death Investigations course has been approved for 40 hours of certification/re-certification training credit by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board.
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Instructors:
Gary Graff, CBPA & Iris Dalley Graff Location: Tacoma Police Department 3701 S. Pine Street, Rm. 1210 Tacoma, WA 98409 Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Tuition: $699 This course is presented in partnership with the International Association for Identification. *NEW REGISTRATION/PAYMENT PROCESS: Please see the bottom of this course page to make your payment and register for this course.
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Death Investigations
Death investigation requires a team effort consisting of detectives, crime scene technicians, and forensic personnel. Positive outcomes are best realized when these components work together to collect, evaluate, reconstruct, and derive meaning from the available evidence.
The challenging 5-day (40 hour) Death Investigations course was designed for detectives, crime scene technicians, medico-legal death investigators, and others involved in the investigation of deaths. Through both lecture and practical exercises, investigators may expand their skill sets by learning and practicing methodologies for objective investigation and analysis of death scenes. Key concepts are reinforced through practical exercises. This is not a “checklist” course. Attendees will use critical thinking skills to analyze and investigate “hands on” historically based homicide investigations.
Classroom instruction and practical exercises include:
Course Requirements:
The Death Investigations course is designed for personnel currently working or moving into death scene investigations. Course materials are provided in electronic format. Attendees should bring an electronic device with USB connection, basic office suite software, and preferably a laptop computer to access/save handouts, case materials, and fillable forms used in both lecture and practical exercises.
Death investigation requires a team effort consisting of detectives, crime scene technicians, and forensic personnel. Positive outcomes are best realized when these components work together to collect, evaluate, reconstruct, and derive meaning from the available evidence.
The challenging 5-day (40 hour) Death Investigations course was designed for detectives, crime scene technicians, medico-legal death investigators, and others involved in the investigation of deaths. Through both lecture and practical exercises, investigators may expand their skill sets by learning and practicing methodologies for objective investigation and analysis of death scenes. Key concepts are reinforced through practical exercises. This is not a “checklist” course. Attendees will use critical thinking skills to analyze and investigate “hands on” historically based homicide investigations.
Classroom instruction and practical exercises include:
- Procedures for managing crime scenes and addressing constitutional issues
- Case management techniques to assess, organize, plan, and delegate investigation
- Methods for identifying and evaluating physical and biological evidence, wounds, bloodstains, ballistics, witnesses, and other evidence
- Evidence associated with child deaths, self-inflicted death, domestic violence, and accidental deaths
- Capabilities and limitations of forensic analysis
- Identifying basic bloodstain pattern characteristics in a crime scene
- Identifying and evaluating evidentiary relationships to reconstruct events
- Evaluating subjective and objective evidence through application of critical thinking
- Flowcharts and timelines as investigative and analytical tools
- Interview techniques to increase subject cooperation
- Behavioral characteristics of violent crime offenders
- Presenting investigations for prosecutorial evaluation
Course Requirements:
The Death Investigations course is designed for personnel currently working or moving into death scene investigations. Course materials are provided in electronic format. Attendees should bring an electronic device with USB connection, basic office suite software, and preferably a laptop computer to access/save handouts, case materials, and fillable forms used in both lecture and practical exercises.
LODGING
Holiday Inn Express
2102 S C Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
253-272-2434
Room Rate: $122 per night (GSA lodging rate)
Amenities: Free Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi, Parking $7 daily (included in price)
Booking Info: Please reserve no later than May 12th
Holiday Inn Express
2102 S C Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
253-272-2434
Room Rate: $122 per night (GSA lodging rate)
Amenities: Free Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi, Parking $7 daily (included in price)
Booking Info: Please reserve no later than May 12th
REGISTRATION
We have a new registration process. Please read carefully.
To register…
Note: Our system requires you to create an account owner before identifying a student. If you are registering yourself for a course, the account owner and student is the same, and you'll need to put your information in both places. If you are an agency representative signing up multiple students, put your information as the account owner and then add as many students as you need to register for the course.
We have a new registration process. Please read carefully.
To register…
- If you have not yet created an account, click the green "Create Account" button below to set up your account.
- Already have an account? Enter your login and password below.
- Once you are logged in or your account is created, click the "Add product" button under your student name to select this course.
Note: Our system requires you to create an account owner before identifying a student. If you are registering yourself for a course, the account owner and student is the same, and you'll need to put your information in both places. If you are an agency representative signing up multiple students, put your information as the account owner and then add as many students as you need to register for the course.