Homicide Investigation

Hosted by: Colerain Township Police Department

Dates: October 9-20, 2023 80-Hour Training Course – KLEC Approved

Tuition: $1375.00

SPI’s HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION course provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to conduct competent and complete homicide/death investigations. Carefully selected case studies are used throughout the program to explore every aspect of homicide/death investigations, including auto-erotic fatalities, and suicides. An expert in a specific field of specialization leads each program segment. The course is an intensive eighty-hour program delivered over 10 days. Each participant is granted the opportunity to individually interact with the instructors and review cases, including their own cold cases and active investigations. The learning environment and assignments, including practical and scenario-based exercises, is highly interactive with frequent group discussions in order to draw on the experience and expertise of the participants themselves as well as from the experience the instructors being to the classroom. At the completion of the program participants have the ability to differentiate between accidental, suicidal, and homicidal death.

Course Topics and Areas of Instruction
• Scene Response & Protocol
• Scene Analysis with Student Case Study
• Law Enforcement Tools & Technology
• Case Management & Small Group Case Work
• Suicide Investigation
• Court Preparation & Testimony
• Criminal Profiling Techniques for HomicideDetectives: Introduction
• Application of Methodology Utilized WhenAnalyzing Violent Crimes
• Criminal Investigative Analysis Program
• Equivocal Death Evaluations
• Cold Case Analysis – Forensic LinguisticExamination
• Cold Case Analysis – Missing Persons Case
• Statement Analysis
• Crime Scene Reconstruction – Sexual Homicide
• Legal Issues in Homicide Investigations andProsecution of Homicide Cases
• Forensic Evidence and Crime Scene Collection
• Trace & Biological Evidence
• Identification of Blood – Small Group Practical
• DNA Evidence
• Bloodstain Pattern: Analysis, Recognition &Classification, Mechanics in the Crime Scene, andDocumentation
• Clandestine Graves
• Introduction to Forensic Pathology
• Blunt and Sharp Force Injuries
• Deaths Associated With Fire and Electricity
• Deaths From Asphyxia
• Injury and Death Associated With Gunshot Wounds
• Death in Childhood: SIDS/SUID/SUDI
• Death in Childhood – Common Causes ofAccidental and Homicidal Death in Children

Register Online at www.louisville.edu/spi

For More Information See SPI Course Flyer – Cincinnati- OH