Instructor: Laura Pettler, Ph.D.
Course length: 4 hours

Introduction to The Murder Room Death Investigation Method

The vision for this course is to introduce the basic concepts of Pettler’s Murder Room death investigation methodology for law enforcement field application.
 
It is one thing to solve a murder case (proper suspect identification), but it’s another to clear murder case (adjudication). Pettler’s method, The Murder Room (TMR), is a systematic, scientific, multidisciplinary, crime scene-to-courtroom victim-centered approach to death investigation for crime scene investigators, detectives, coroners, prosecutors, and students that not only identifies the correct suspect and manner of death, but helps present the case in the courtroom. TMR’s six-stage method is a team-approach to solving and clearing murders is all-inclusive; everyone’s ideas and skill sets are relevant and paramount to success. With a 98% solvability rate, TMR is surprisingly easy to learn, easy to build at your location, and easy to use. This course introduces the TMR concept, provides an overview of its six stages and substages, matrices and metrics, its built-in fail safes, and legal applicability for 21st century death investigation today.



This course has been approved for 4 hours of recertification training credits by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board.
Laura Pettler, Ph.D
​Dr. Pettler’s career is dedicated to using her life to leave the world better than she found it. Dr. Pettler’s job as a forensic criminologist specializing in staged homicide cases is to analyze physical, behavioral, and sociological evidence towards solving the most challenging murders and death investigations in the world. Dr. Pettler is the Deputy Coroner Commander of the Lancaster County South Carolina Coroner’s Office Mounted Response Unit and is a former North Carolina District Attorney’s Investigator where she was the co-founder and director of North Carolina’s first and only Crime Scene Reconstruction & Behavioral Analysis Program and head of the district’s first Cold Case Task Force.

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