INVESTIGATIVE INVESTIGATIVE QUARTERLY
A Publication by the International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA)
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Sergeant Rob Peters, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office
Dear Colleagues, Members and Sponsors,
Summer is quickly approaching us. Thus far, 2024 has been an exciting year for the International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA). We have had the opportunity to facilitate and share training, experiences, and best practices with our long-time members, as well as brand-new members. Leading into the spring and summer months, we have some great training opportunities lined up for our members. In April, we are presenting a DNA Summit in Deerfield Beach, Florida, as well as a Cold/Case No-Body Homicide Course in Kansas City Missouri. In May, we have a Foundational Homicide Investigations Course in Houston, Texas. Finally, in June, we are hosting a Child & Infant Death Investigation Course in Columbus, Ohio, and a DNA and Genealogy Summit in Collinsville, Illinois. Please continue to check www.ihia.org for the latest training opportunities.
The agenda for the 2024 Symposium in Washington DC has been completed. As many of our members and sponsors know, we are dedicated to bringing our members great case presentations, the latest investigative tools, and developing technologies that could assist our members in their death investigations. The Symposium Planning Committee has created a great program for Washington, DC. We look forward to seeing all our old friends, as well as a lot of new friends at the symposium.
Just a reminder, we recently updated and improved our website. The new design provides for a better user experience. Please continue to utilize the website, www.ihia.org , for the latest training opportunities, our association sponsors, as well as our valued exhibitors. The website is also a great tool for locating investigators in other states and countries.
On behalf of the Association’s Board, I want to thank you for your membership and continued support. We couldn’t do any of this without you. We will continue to strive to provide the best resources, guidance, and training to each of you and our profession.
What’s Inside the IQ:
• Letter from President Rob Peters
• From the desk of the IHIA Executive Director Steve Lewis
• Article: Buried Secrets
• Article: Detentions And Consent: When Do Legal Searches Turn Illegal, And Potential Evidence Suppressed?
• Article: Sexual Assault/Rape and Serial Sexual Homicide: Investigative Considerations2024 Symposium
• Article: The Parkland Mass Shooting and the Path to Intended Violence: Missed Opportunities and Preventions
• Article: “Invisible Deaths”: A Critical Analysis of the Study of Prison Homicide
• 2024 Symposium
• Interview with a Denmark Police Detective
• Regional Marketing Opportunities
• DNA & Genealogy Summit
President Rob Peters
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• Jog for Justice
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From the desk of The IHIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Steve Lewis
The IHIA continues to push forward in our mission to provide professional and relevant training to law enforcement around the world. We are facilitating 12-16 training courses a year, a weeklong annual symposium, but we are also providing training in the use of Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy. Last year, the IHIA presented two (2) DNA & Genealogy Summits in San Diego (west coast) and Washington D.C. (east coast). This year, the IHIA will be presenting the same summit in Collinsville, Illinois (mid-west) and plans are underway for a summit in Canada in the fall.
These summits have been overwhelmingly successful and the demand for FIGG training continues to grow. The IHIA has been fortunate to work with numerous experts in this field and with the expanded use of FIGG, more homicide cases continue to be solved. In addition to putting on these summits, the IHIA has created a customizable, agency-based training that can be anywhere between 8, 12 or 16 hours. These agencybased training courses are smaller in size and built with the emphasis on getting into the nuts and bolts of working cases using FIGG. The other focus is on providing tailored training programs that address the needs of an agency/jurisdiction. As we develop the template of such training programs, stay tuned for announcement or get in touch if your agency is interested in such a program.
Lastly, our planning efforts are underway for the 30th Anniversary of our Annual Symposium. This year, we will be back in Washington, D.C. We have completed the agenda and have some outstanding presentations from the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. This symposium will undoubtedly be one of our biggest symposiums yet as our registration numbers thus far have exceeded our expectations. You don’t want to miss this one! Register now, as the Early Bird member registration ends on April 30, 2024.
Stay Safe!
Steve Lewis IHIA Executive Director
Article: BURIED SECRETS
How a DNA law named after two Tacoma girls helped link an executed killer to a murder case that had been cold for nearly five decades
Nearly a decade ago, I sat at my desk inside a drab storage closet that had been converted to the cold case office on the second floor of the Tacoma Police headquarters building. I was poring over a massive list of names as adrenaline coursed through my body. Maybe this is it. Maybe he’s on this list. Maybe this will finally provide the answers I’ve been searching for.
What I was searching for was nothing short of a miracle. I was investigating the brutal slayings of 12-year-old Michella Welch and 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian that had occurred in 1986. The two cases were thought to be the work of the same deranged predator for 28 years, until DNA revealed the puzzling truth–there were two different killers. In both cases, the unknown assailant left his semen at the crime scene, but there was no match in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) at the state or national level.
I was searching for a needle in a haystack, and it seemed as though the only tool I had at my disposal was a pair of dull tweezers. Every detective who’d worked on the two murders over the previous 30 years had hoped that one day the suspect would be convicted of an unrelated crime and his DNA would be uploaded into CODIS. That’s how it’s supposed to work, but in this case, there were no offender hits and no matches to related cases. Both investigations were at a standstill.
I had learned over my years of investigating cold cases, that there were many reasons why a convicted rapist or killer who should be in CODIS might have slipped through the cracks. In 2011, I discovered that Ted Bundy’s DNA was not in CODIS and I made it my mission to find a sample of his DNA and get it into the national DNA database. I worked with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and they were able to track down a vial of Bundy’s blood collected in 1978 and to everyone’s amazement, a complete profile was obtained. In 2011, Bundy’s DNA was finally entered into CODIS.
The Bundy DNA scavenger hunt, which included evaluating dental molds that had been on display in a Florida crime lab and a lunch date with Ann Rule for the purpose of collecting letters Bundy had written from prison, was an eye-opening experience for me. It made me wonder how many other psychopathic killers and rapists were missing from CODIS. DNA databases were created, after all, for the purpose of solving violent crime and connecting the dots between cases where the offender might not otherwise be identified. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
By: Detective Lindsay Wade (retired), Tacoma P.D.
Article: Detentions And Consent: When Do Legal Searches Turn Illegal, And Potential Evidence Suppressed?
RULES
A “show of authority” by law enforcement officers may convert an intended consensual encounter into a detention. If such a detention is not accompanied by evidence that the detainee is engaged in criminal conduct, then the detention is illegal, requiring the suppression of any resulting evidence. The discovery during an unlawful detention that a detainee is on parole makes such a discovery, and the results of a parole search, subject to suppression.
FACTS
“Defendant Jeremiah Paul was observed by two Los Angeles Police Department officers sitting in his Toyota Prius around 9 p.m. on March 7, 2020, in a residential area. The officers first noticed Paul because he was sitting there with his vehicle’s lights on. As the officers drove up next to Paul’s car, one of the officers “illuminated the Prius with his flashlight.” In response, Paul sunk lower in his seat as if “conceal[ing] himself from [the officers’] view,” an action Paul later denied, and the significance of, the court never discussed. One of the officers patrolled this area regularly and knew that a parolee lived across the street from where the Prius was parked. The driving officer then backed up the patrol car and stopped in the middle of the street with his headlights pointing straight down the road, putting the patrol car a vehicle length behind Paul’s car, thus allowing room for him to drive away should he choose to do so. That officer then got out of the patrol vehicle and walked to the driver’s side of the Prius while illuminating that side of the car with his flashlight. The second officer did the same on the passenger’s side. The driver’s side window was rolled up, but the door was partially open. The officer, who was standing two to three feet from the door, opened it further and spoke to Paul, asking him innocuous questions such as, “How ya doin’, man?” During a short back-and-forth between the two establishing that they were both doing “all right” and “good,” the officer asked Paul if he lived at that location, to which defendant said that he did. A few more seconds into this unenlightening, yet low-key, conversation, it culminated with” “the officer asking: “Any probation or parole?” Paul responded that he was on parole. The officers therefore conducted a parole search of the car, recovering an illegal firearm. Paul was arrested
and charged in state court with possessing a firearm with a prior violent conviction (Pen. Code § 29900(a)(1)). After his motion to suppress the firearm was denied, he pleaded “no contest” and appealed.
HELD
The Second District Court of Appeal, Division 5, reversed. The issue on appeal was whether Paul was “detained,” or only “consensually encountered.” It was not contested by the People that if Paul was detained, then the discovery of his parole status, occurring during an unlawful detention, was illegal, and any resulting evidence (the firearm) should have been suppressed. If only consensually encountered, Paul’s admission to being on parole would have occurred during that lawful conversation, making the discovery of his parole status and the recovery of the firearm lawful. The applicable legal standards here are clear: “An illegal detention that uncovers evidence is generally subject to the exclusionary rule, which dictates the unlawfully obtained evidence be suppressed as ‘fruit of the poisonous tree.’” (People v. Kasrawi?(2021) 65 Cal. App.5th 751, 761.) A suspect who is subjected to a “show of authority” by the police will generally be held to have been detained. “The test for the existence of a show of authority is an objective one and does not take into account the perceptions of the particular person involved. [Citation.] The test is ‘not whether the citizen perceived that he was being ordered to restrict his movement, but whether the officer’s words and actions would have conveyed that to a reasonable person.’” (People v. Garry (2007) 156 Cal.App.4th 1100, at p. 1106.) ““This includes an examination of both an officer’s verbal?and?nonverbal actions to ‘assess the coercive effect of police conduct as a whole, rather than emphasizing particular details of that conduct in isolation.’” (Id.?at p. 1110.) The “totality of the circumstances” is to be considered when evaluating these circumstances. Clearly, the officers here intended for their contact with defendant to be nothing more than a consensual encounter. As noted by the court, they parked their patrol car behind and to the side of the Prius, purposely leaving room for him to drive away should he choose to do so. They used their flashlights only, choosing not to “spotlight” Paul.
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Article: Sexual Assault/Rape and Serial Sexual Homicide: Investigative Considerations
INTRODUCTION
“Serial sexual homicide has generated intense and sustained fasci- nation by the general public since before the turn of the century [1–3]. But notwithstanding such interest, systematic empirical re- search has been limited, in part because of the crime’s extreme rarity [4, 5], which makes the use of ordinary behavioral science research methods difficult to employ [6]. Unfortunately, most case studies, as well as some descriptive empirical research, have used a combined (or mixed) sample of both serial and nonserial sexual murderers, making the results difficult to generalize and apply to either type of offender [7–9]. There is quite a difference between an offender who commits one sexual homicide (perhaps with a strong situational component) and an offender who com- mits multiple sexual homicides in a compulsive-repetitive fashion [10]. A further complication is that some researchers have combined not only serial and nonserial sexual murderers in their sample but also all other types of serial killers, such as contract murderers, healthcare killers, and those responding to psychotic symptoms (e.g., [11–16]). To update the research, to address methodological flaws in prior studies, and to gain further under- standing of this extraordinary crime, we examined the records of a nonrandom national sample of serial sexual murderers in order to determine the extent to which offenders had a known history of sexual assault/rape as well as its relevance to their behavior at the homicide crime scene.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON THE ARREST RECORDS OF SERIAL SEXUAL MURDERERS
Beginning in the latter half of the 19th century, a number of early alienists reported cases of serial and nonserial sexual homicide that they evaluated in the course of their practices. It was Krafft-Ebing [17], however, who can be credited with the first scientific study of sexual homicide, by grouping these case studies in his iconic text Psychopathia Sexualis. Krafft-Ebing described— with varying levels of detail—over 20 cases of sexual homicide including five (perhaps seven) serial sexual murderers. The offenders’ backgrounds were reported along with their diverse medical abnormalities, family make-ups, and histories of fire-setting and animal cruelty, and often documented the absence of any significant mental disorder or arrest record. None of
these offenders, including the serial sexual mur- derers, had a known history of sexual assault/rape. Interest in such extraordinary homicide cases continued during the 20th century, as psychiatrists assessed and reported on both serial and nonserial sexual murderers. For example, Hirschfeld [18] noted a background of sexual inadequacy in these offenders but did not provide evi- dence of known prior sexual assaults or rapes. The well-known case study of serial sexual murderer William Heirens [19, 20], who was evaluated in-depth, disclosed a history of numerous burglaries and fire-setting but not sexual assault or rape. Other authors [21–25] reported cases—primarily of nonserial sexual murderers—in which they documented background histories of parental abuse, animal cruelty, and various minor sex offenses but not a known history of sexual assault/rape. MacCulloch, Snowden, Wood and Mills [26] evaluated seven individuals they labeled “sadistic psychopaths” who each committed a murder, but only one (14.3%) was known to have committed a sexual assault/rape.
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Article: The Parkland Mass Shooting and the Path to Intended Violence: Missed Opportunities and Preventions
INTRODUCTION
On February 14, 2018, a 19-year-old former student returned to his high school armed with an AR-15.1
In under 6minutes, he committed what remains, to date, the most lethal mass shooting in a U.S. high school, killing 14 students and 3 teachers, injuring 17 others, and leaving a community and the nation in shock. The events that unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland, Florida led to renewed calls to identify opportunities to prevent future tragedies that echoed other school shootings, including those at Columbine High School (1999) and Sandy Hook Elementary School (2012). Less than a month after the shooting, Governor Rick Scott signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act into law, which, among other provisions, established a review commission tasked with investigating the shooting and what led up to it (see, generally, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, n.d.).
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission’s (MSDPSC) initial report was made public in January 2019, with a second report released in November of the same year. Like prior tragedies, the Commission found numerous failures that could possibly have prevented the shooting. Absent their inquiry, however, was a clear framework through which to analyze these findings.
Contrary to the discourse that often follows public mass shootings like Parkland, there are no known demographic profiles of perpetrators that can accurately predict who will attempt or successfully carry out these attacks (Calhoun & Weston, 2003; Congressional Research Service, 2013; Pollack et al., 2008; U.S. Department of Justice, 2017). Despite this, perpetrators have been found to follow a clear, discernible path toward targeted violence, as these attacks are seldom impulsive or spontaneous (Calhoun & Weston, 2003; Fein & Vossekuil, 1997). These individuals often methodically prepare and plan for their attacks and display certain warning behaviors that may indicate they are moving along a pathway toward violence. Therefore, it is recommended that efforts like threat assessment focus on warning behaviors, or what the individual is doing, instead of solely on the threats the individual is making or attempting to profile them (Borum et al., 1999;
Calhoun & Weston, 2003, 2015; Fein & Vossekuil, 1997; Meloy et al., 2011). If warning behaviors are identified and appropriately managed, many of these attacks likely would be prevented (Fein & Vossekuil, 1997; Pollack et al., 2008).
In this paper, we employ a case study approach to examining the Parkland school shooting within the context of the Path to Intended Violence model (Calhoun & Weston, 2003). This particular case, which has been called “the United States’ most preventable school shooting” (“Parkland: Our Investigations,” 2019, para. 1), is optimal for such an evaluation given the high volume of investigatory material that emerged in its aftermath, which is rare to most similar events save a few notable exceptions (e.g., the attacks at Columbine or Sandy Hook). It also garnered considerable widespread public interest (e.g., Agiesta, 2018; Graf, 2018) and subsequent mobilization for policy change (e.g., Alter, 2018), the likes of which has never been observed. Official investigatory documents and open-source records, including the reports from the MSDPSC, are analyzed within each stage of the framework to better understand not only the events that led up to the shooting but also the opportunities that existed to intervene and potentially prevent the attack. We then consider the important implications that these findings have for future policy and offer recommendations based on the lessons learned from this tragedy.
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Figure 1. The Path to Intended Violence model.
Article: “Invisible Deaths”: A Critical Analysis of the Study of Prison Homicide
INTRODUCTION
“The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder, And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed. The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon. Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured, And still more often the condemned is the burden bearer for the guiltless and unblamed. You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. And when the black thread breaks the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also.”
- Kahlil Gibran
On Crime and Punishment
THE STUDY OF HOMICIDE
In 2019, Illinois federal prison Thomson Penitentiary opened a Special Management Unit tasked with housing individuals who were identified as engaging in disruptive or violent behavior. By 2023, the facility was closed after a report identified it as one of the deadliest prisons in the United States. The violence was exposed through an investigation conducted by NPR and the Marshall Project. The investigation details one case, that of Bobby Everson, who was nearing the end of his sentence but, as evidenced through communications to family and loved ones, was terrified that he would not make it out of Thomson alive (Thompson, 2022). By November, he was found dead in his cell from blunt force trauma to the head. Subsequent investigations revealed shocking conditions, with at least five suspected homicides of incarcerated individuals in the facility (Thompson & Shapiro, 2022). Several years later, in 2022, the federal prison system in the United States was put on lockdown after violence erupted between gang members at a federal penitentiary in Texas, leaving two incarcerated persons dead and several others wounded (Balsamo & Sisak, 2022). Referring to an investigation into Lewisburg Prison in the United States, one defense attorney commented that it was “not only a violence factory, it was a homicide factory,” where some perpetrators were released into the community after they had committed homicides while incarcerated (Thomasville, 2022).
The stories are countless, and the violence is enduring. Prisons are secure spaces, functioning as total institutions centered on surveillance and control. Yet they are also increasingly dangerous places where some of the most vulnerable are subject to violent victimization. For some, the punishments imposed by the criminal justice system are rendered meaningless as lethal violence within the prison walls results in death sentences.
The criminological research on homicide is extensive. Strong empirical knowledge exists regarding the nature of fatal interpersonal violence, the individuals who perpetrate these acts, and the primary, secondary, and tertiary victims. Books, journals, conferences, investigative units, and working groups are dedicated to the study of and approaches to homicide. Scholarly and practitioner-generated research has explored nearly every type and classification of this criminal behavior, including but not limited to, intimate partner homicide, femicide, mass homicide, familial homicide, gang homicide, confrontational homicide, serial homicide, and sexual homicide. Serial and sexual homicide, statistical anomalies among homicide offenses, are overwhelmingly the focus of much scholarly inquiry and practitioner interest and continue to garner attention from criminologists and investigators. Advances in DNA technology have facilitated the closure of “cold” or unsolved cases of homicides, some that have had no investigative leads for decades. Resources such as investigative genealogy have been utilized to bring justice to many victims and their families, sparking renewed interest in cold cases that once seemed unsolvable. Yet there is one type of homicide that has been largely ignored by criminal justice scholarship— homicides which occur between those individuals who are incarcerated, or prison homicide.
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As a single flint stone doesn’t spark until it connects with another, connection and collaboration with other professionals will fan the flames of learning, leadership, competence, and career development. The Flint to Flame interview series seeks to reinforce this notion by leveraging the knowledge, skill, and experience of professionals across the International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA) network to help bring this metaphor to life.
IHIA’s Director of Training, D/F/Lt. (ret.) Dave Eddy, sat down with Detective Martin Enggaard from Denmark Police to talk about his experience – as a private Danish citizen – creating what’s called a Citizen’s Proposal to invite the Danish parliament to consider the utility of Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy in Denmark. His success in this endeavor is great news for Denmark, but also provides learning opportunities and perhaps
Episode One:
IHIA’s Director of Training, D/F/Lt. (ret.) Dave Eddy with Detective Martin Enggaard from Denmark Police
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some best practices for other countries wishing to follow suit. Most importantly, the intersection of Martin’s private citizen and homicide detective worlds provides interesting and valuable perspective on how DNA, as well as FIGG, can revolutionize the way cases are solved. This is their conversation.
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