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Laura Pettler, Ph.D.Specialties
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About 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.
Laura analyzes the physical and behavioral evidence in death cases. She bloodstains, bullet paths, wound paths, evidence in the scene, along with personality traits, emotionality, cognition, and behaviors.
Laura was the Director of North Carolina's first and only Crime Scene Reconstruction and Behavioral Analysis program in history based in Prosecutorial District 20A and was the Director of its former Cold Case Task Force until 2010.
Here are few highlights from her exciting career:
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.
Laura analyzes the physical and behavioral evidence in death cases. She bloodstains, bullet paths, wound paths, evidence in the scene, along with personality traits, emotionality, cognition, and behaviors.
Laura was the Director of North Carolina's first and only Crime Scene Reconstruction and Behavioral Analysis program in history based in Prosecutorial District 20A and was the Director of its former Cold Case Task Force until 2010.
Here are few highlights from her exciting career:
- CEO of Laura Pettler & Associates
- Director of The LPA International Forensics Institute Ground & Online Campuses
- OzTeam Forensic Criminologist Seasons 8, 9, 10, and (coming soon) 11 on The Dr. Oz Show
- Licensed Private Investigator
- Former District Attorney's Investigator
- Former District Attorney’s Cold Case Task Force Co-Founder & Director
- Former District Attorney's Crime Scene Reconstruction & Behavioral Analysis Co-Founder & Director
- Former Deputy Coroner
- Former IAI Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst
- Former IAI Chairwoman of the Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Subcommittee
- Instructor for the IAI, FDIAI, NCIAI
- 2017 FDIAI Keynote Speaker
- Author of the world's first book exclusively dedicated to entitled Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases
- Author of the world's third dissertation on crime scene staging entitled Crime Scene Behaviors of Crime Scene Stagers
- Author of numerous studies and articles on crime scene staging in homicide cases
- Featured in Evidence Technology Magazine as an expert in crime scene staging
- Featured in Forensic Magazine as an expert in crime scene staging
- Alliance Charter Member...Cold Case Accountability Act of 2020
- Blogger for DoctorOz.com...Oz Investigates: Science, Medicine, and Mystery True Crime Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Co-Executive Producer and Host...International Academy of Web-Television Awards Nominee, "Notorious: True Crime Stories with Laura Pettler"