SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SUNDAY, June 25:
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REGISTRATION, 3:00-6:00PM
RECEPTION, Hilton Bar & Grill, Cash
Bar, casual attire: 7:00-9:00PM
MONDAY, June 26:
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REGISTRATION 7:30-8:00AM
OPENING CEREMONIES &
INTRODUCTION OF VENDORS: 8:008:15AM
PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS:
8:30AM-5:00PM
GROUP PHOTO: 5:00-5:30PM
VENDOR APPRECIATION & BOOK
SIGNING EVENT: Food provided, cash
bar: 6:00-8:00PM
TUESDAY, June 27:
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PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS:
8:00AM-4:30PM
CLOSING CEREMONIES: 4:30-5:00PM
WEDNESDAY, Jun 28:
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CASE PRESENTATIONS, BOARD OF
DIRECTORS, REVIEW BOARD, AND
CONSULTING COMMITTEE ONLY:
8:00AM-3:00PM
Details:
http://www.aisocc.com/2017conference/
Previous conference presenters
included:
James Clemente, JD--AISOCC
Review Board, former supervisory
special agent in the FBI’s Behavioral
Analysis Unit, former NYC prosecuting
attorney, and nationally recognized
expert on sex crimes;
Joseph P. Kenda, BA--AISOCC
Review Board, Retired Major Crimes
Unit commander with a 92% clearance
rate, as documented in Investigative
Discovery Channel’s Homicide Hunter:
Lt Joe Kenda;
Christopher Kunkle, PsyD—AISOCC
Overall Consulting Committee Chair,
Director and Chief Psychiatric
Examiner of the Bureau of Institutional
Sex Offender Treatment with the NYS
Office of Mental Health;
Cyril Wecht, MD, JD--forensic
pathologist, attorney and medical-legal
consultant, who has performed
approximately 17,000 autopsies and has
supervised, reviewed or has been
consulted on approximately 30,000
additional postmortem examinations.
AMERICAN INVESTIGATIVE SOCIETY
OF COLD CASES
th
2017 4 Annual Educational Conference
Evening Reception: June 25, 2017
Presentations: June 26-June 27
Board & Consulting Committee: June 28
Hilton Airport, Saint Louis, Missouri
Lambert St. Louis International Airport
http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/missouri/hilton-stlouis-airport-STLHIHF/index.html
Free Airport Shuttle & Parking
Limited Room Block
$107.00 USD/night
Deadline: May 15, 2017
Reservations: call 800-314-2117
Reference: Group Code: AIS
AISOCC is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization
of professional investigators and a range of forensic
experts offering confidential crime scene
reconstruction and assessment, and criminal
profiling in the resolution of cold cases for law
enforcement agencies; also providing free serology
and DNA testing, file digitization, the Annual
Educational Conference, peer-reviewed research,
broad-based societal outreach programming, and
resources for families of victims.
https://www.aisocc.com
https://www.aisocc.com/submit-a-case-to-aisocc.html
Membership is open to all interested in the pursuit of
truth and justice in the resolution of cold cases. Member
categories include the Consulting Committee (as
selected by the Board of Directors), General, Student,
and Corporate.
AISOCC's 2017 Educational Conference
Scheduled Presenters:
Joseph D. Kennedy, MA -- Retired Supervisory
Kenneth L. Mains, BS--AISOCC Founder and
Katherine Ramsland, PhD, AISOCC Review
President, Narcotics Enforcement Unit Detective
and Supervisor, Lycoming
County (PA) District Attorney’s
Office Investigation Unit,
Advisory Board Member at the
Cyril H. Wecht Institute of
Forensic Science and Law at
Duquesne University; awarded Police Officer of
the Year for the Williamsport Bureau of Police and
the Williamsport Fraternal Order of Police
Gallantry Star for “Acts of Distinguished Bravery.”
Presenting: Opening and Closing Remarks
Board, professor of forensic psychology and author
of over 1,000 articles and 59
books to include: The Mind of a
Murderer: Privileged Access to
the Demons that Drive Extreme
Violence, Inside the Minds of
Serial Killers, The Forensic
Psychology of Criminal Minds,
The Forensic Science of CSI,
Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers, and, The
Human Predator: A Historical Chronology of
Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation.
Werner Spitz, MD--Forensic pathologist for
Workshop: Behavioral Investigative Analysis
presented by Ramsland and Pettler.
over 50 years, and author of 96 scientific
publications, having served on
various committees
investigating the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy
and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Presenting: Bodies Tell
Tales
John Liebert, MD, PC -- Psychiatrist
specializing in neuropsychiatric disease and
forensic consulting, to include:
Ted Bundy, Wayne Williams,
Gary Ridgeway, and Atlanta
Child Murder Cases; author of a
clinical decision support system,
the textbook: Suicidal Mass
Murderers: A Criminological
Study of Why They Kill, and Contributions of
Psychiatry in the Investigation of Serial Murder in
the International Journal of Offender Therapy and
Comparative Criminology. Presenting: Ted
Bundy and Wayne Williams: Flip Sides,
Same Coin
Laura Pettler, PhD: AISOCC Vice President,
founder/owner Carolina Forensics, LLC., cofounder and Director of North Carolina's first
Crime Scene Reconstruction
and Behavioral Analysis
Program, author of Crime
Scene Staging Dynamics in
Homicide Cases, and coinventor of a crime scene
reconstruction system used in
more than 30 countries.
Suzanna Ryan, MS, D-ABC -- Principle
officer: Ryan Forensic: Forensic serology and
DNA analysis, consulting, evidence collection, and
training; having authored professional journal
articles, and having presented
expert testimony nationally
and internationally.
Presenting: Summary of
the Newest and Most
Advanced DNA
Technology.
Special Agent, Naval Criminal Investigative
Service (NCIS), primary architect and Program
Manager for the NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit,
with methodology and protocol
adopted internationally; former
Director for the Department of
Defense Joint Counterintelligence
Unit, International Security
Assistance Forces, Kabul,
Afghanistan, and was responsible
for the NCIS Counter-Piracy and
Counter Narco-Terrorism initiative in collaboration
with INTERPOL and NATO to develop proactive
law enforcement strategies designed to combat
Somali Piracy in the Indian Ocean and Gulf
Region. Presenting: How to Work a Cold Case
Investigation
Silvia Pettem -- Researcher and author on longterm missing persons, unidentified remains, and
cold case homicides, NamUs instructor for the
Colorado Bureau of Investigations, and Vidocq
Society Medal of Honor
winner; having authored
more than a dozen books to
include: The Long Term
Missing: Hope and Help for
Families, Someone’s
Daughter: In Search of
Justice for Jane Doe, and Cold Case Research:
Resources for unidentified, Missing, and Cold Case
Homicide Cases. Presenting: Someone’s
Daughter and The Long Term Missing: Hope
and Help for Families