September 4th, 5th and 6th, 2024 in beautiful Snowmass, Colorado. Top speakers from around the country arrive in Snowmass Colorado to provide First Class training and networking.
Serial Rapist Targeting Realtors Arrested After 27 Years
Crime Analyst Supervisor and Investigative Genetic Genealogist Michele Kennedy
Detective Mike Trindle
In 1995, a realtor was sexually assaulted inside a model home as she was locking up the houses for the night near Parker in unincorporated Douglas County. A similar assault had occurred at a model home sales office four years earlier in 1991 in Highlands Ranch, and a suspect was arrested after another similar attack in 1999 in Lone Tree. Although DNA found at the scene of the 1995 sexual assault did not match the suspect arrested in 1999, the MO and distinctive suspect features matched the 1995 sexual assault and suspect descriptions. However, the case went cold due to the unidentified DNA.
In 2020, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit reopened the 1995 kidnapping and sexual assault and conducted an evidence review, additional forensic testing, and investigative genetic genealogy (IGG). After an unexpected result from the IGG and forensic testing, a serial rapist with a history of assaulting realtors and apartment leasing agents going back to the 1970s was identified.
Analysis of Patterns of Denial (APOD)
Account Takeovers
Detective Kim Boik
A woman sits across from you and tells her horrific story of being sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend a few weeks prior. She’s scared of him, doesn’t want to ever talk to him again, all their texts are now deleted, there’s no physical crime scene, and she refuses to make a recorded call. You want to corroborate her story and get the ex-boyfriend to confess. This course will add a tool of using account takeovers to your tool belt to help corroborate your victim’s statement, elicit statements from the suspect (possibly a confession), and can potentially help you get more charges against the suspect. You as the detective will learn how to pretend to be your victim (or a witness) and reach out to the suspect over social media to talk about the case. This tool has shown success on cases that otherwise would never have been able to be charged. This course will go over legal considerations, ways to preserve the evidence, how to pretend to be your victim who is of a different age and/or gender, themes to approach in the chats, and ways to confirm who the person is that you’re talking with. There are several case studies woven through to help illustrate points and one case study at the end showing how an account takeover resulted in an extremely quick guilty verdict on a cold sex assault on a child case (which we all know how difficult those are to corroborate!). The application of this tool can go far beyond sex assault investigations.
The Larry Nassar Case
Deputy Chief Andrea Munford
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Danielle Fenton
The Don Davis Case
Undersheriff Dan Covault
Lorina Pyle