Iowa
Division
International Association for Identification
Iowa IAI Annual Spring Conference and Business Meeting
May 2-4, 2012
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Location: Cedar Falls, IA
Full schedule coming soon
Forensic Odontologist Dr. John Filippi will present on Friday, May 4th.
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John received his DDS degree in 1980 from Creighton University and resides in Omaha, Nebraska. He has been actively involved in forensic dental investigations since 1983. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and is certified as a Diplomate by the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO). His first participation in a Mass Fatality Incident was in 1989 with UAL Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa. He was asked to join the NDMS/ DMORT Teams (Disaster Mortuary Operation Response Team) in 1991 and has since been deployed in 10 DMORT Missions, including WTC/911 and Hurricane Katrina. His most recent deployment was the Joplin Missouri Tornado Disaster. He is also the current Training Officer for the DMORT Regional 7 Team. Dr. Filippi is an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Forensics Masters Program, and teaches the forensic dental elective course at Creighton University School of Dentistry. He is the lead forensic dental consultant for Douglas County Nebraska Coroner’s Office and for the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a current member and served on the Board of Governors, for the American Society of Odontology (ASFO) and is currently on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO). Dr. Filippi is a member of the International Association of Identification (IAI) and an affiliate member of the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). He currently serves as the Midwest Regional Forensic Odontologist for the NamUs Program. |
Jon M. Mattsen, Sergeant, King County Sheriff's Office will give a presentation on the Green Rive Killer, Gary Ridgway
Jon Mattsen is a Sergeant with the King County Sheriffs Office, and has been with the department for 23 years. He has had several assignments in Reactive/uniformed patrol as a Deputy, Master Police Officer and Sergeant; and detective assignments in the Proactive (plainclothes) Unit, the Burglary-Larceny Unit, the Special Assault Unit, the Major Crimes Unit and the Green River Homicides Unit. In Green River, he was one of the original 5 members assigned when Gary Ridgway was identified through DNA. Sgt. Mattsen was a lead investigator for the one of the originally charged cases and one of four primary interviewers of Ridgway when he entered into an agreement with the King County Prosecutor's Office.
Taking the Crime Scene into the Interrogation Room
May 21-22, 2012
Ankeny Police Deparment, Ankeny, IA
This course is designed for criminal investigators, crime scene specialists, as well as uniform officers who have the responsibility of conducting their own interviews and interrogations. This class will benefit any investigator or officer who is looking to improve his/her skills in the art of interrogation, or the gentle art of persuasion. Three things solve cases: 1. Physical evidence, 2. Witnesses, 3. Confessions. It is very important to any investigation to know how to get a criminal suspect to confess, or get them to "yes". This class will make you a much better interrogator and give you the added confidence to enter a room and get the suspect to confess.
Your instructor, Dan Craft, has 31 years of investigative experience as a FBI agent specializing in violent crimes with a very broad range of duties and responsibilities that he brings to the classroom with him. He has been a criminal profiler and polygraph examiner who has written a 40 hour advanced interview/interrogation course for the FBI and taught it at the FBI training academy in Quantico, VA.
Dan has taught nationally and internationally and at the graduate level at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and is currently teaching at Metropolitan State University and Concordia College in St. Paul, MN. Mr. Craft has been given the distinction of "Master Police Instructor" through the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has worked closely with local law enforcement agencies to better train their crime scene units to understand what an investigator and profiler needs to see out of their crime scenes.
Among Dan’s duties with the FBI were investigating; street gangs, violent crimes, homicides, bank robbery, organized crime, serial murder cases, crimes against children, criminal profiling, hostage negotiations and terrorism. He has worked in the Middle East as an advisor and worked with other US Federal agencies to conduct security investigations.
Among the courses taught to law enforcement personnel over those years are courses on Street Gangs, Terrorism, Police Related Critical Incidents, Major Case Investigations, Reading a Crime Scene – Crime Scene Analysis, Sex Related Crimes, Stress Management, and a variety of Interview and Interrogation – Hostage Negotiation courses.
Dan has also taught how to combine the work done at the crime with the investigation of a crime and then the successful interview and interrogation of the suspect to several local IAI Divisions and local chapters of the Homicide Investigators conferences and is a past president of the Wisconsin Homicide Investigators Association and the past National Chairman of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Advisory Committee. As you can see he has a wealth of both practical and teaching experience to share with each student and enjoys interacting with law enforcement and crime scene personnel.
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Android smartphone owners can now download the Crime-lite® Selector, an App that is designed to assist in the detection and examination of forensic evidence whilst using the Crime-lite® range of high intensity light sources.
The App, which is available to download via the Android Marketplace free of charge, informs users of the correct wavelength (colour) of light together with associated viewing filter to be used for the examination of a particular evidence type.
With information provided on more than 20 evidence types, including chemically treated fingerprints, the Crime-lite® Selector is a useful reference guide to any Crime-lite® user.
Download the App by following this link to the Android Marketplace.
SOCIAL EVENTS THROUGOUT THE STATE
Story County Crime Stoppers Dodge Ball Tournament
February 11, 2012 at 1000