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

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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

​​After 18 years, Dr. Pettler’s commitment to using scientific mixed-method research-based methodologies like her Crime Scene Staging Trilogy Method, Victim-Centered Death Investigation Methodology, and The Murder Room method has allowed her to get closer to the most plausible manner of death. Dr. Pettler specializes in staged murders: murders made to look like suicides, made to look like accidents, naturals, or murders. Her area of expertise is focused in intimate partner and domestic violence hot and cold homicide cases, which in some cases extends to missing persons, serial homicide, and sexual homicide as well. Laura is the author of the first book in the world on crime scene staging entitled Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases.​

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