Unresolved Homicide Case Investigation-Rockford

This course has been approved by ILESTB to meet the following mandates:

Lead Homicide Investigator 16 Hours

Course Objective

The course objective is to demonstrate the re-approach to an unsolved homicide investigation in an objective way through the re-examination of the victim, solvability factors, and indicators that allow us to hypothesize association, motive, and method of operation. We will also show on a case-by-case basis the strategic approach to an unsolved homicide by objectively reviewing the crime scene, victimology, evidence, and autopsy review to establish a new probative path to explore.

We examine through case reviews how the scientific method can be applied to both active and unsolved homicides to identify hypothesis through examination and research and later theory through the analysis of the evidence and experimentation that will point to a likely offender association.

The program will also demonstrate the new forensic procedures that increase the likely hood of DNA evidence recovery and the use of genotyping, phenotyping and familial database searching to identify family members of unknown DNA profiles