Training Classes: Death Investigation

Course Description
This course covers the many facets of death investigation, including natural, suicide, homicide, accident, and undetermined deaths.  Duties and responsibilities of the first responder, investigation of a death scene, sketching and photographing the crime scene, estimating time of death, identifying the victim, and determining the mechanism of death.

Students will learn how a Forensic Anthropologist, Forensic Odontologists, and a Forensic Psychologist can assist in a death investigation.  The role of the medical examiner and their relationship to the scene investigator will also be discussed. 

Emphasis is placed on how and why the cause and manner of death is a vital part of any death investigation.  Various mechanisms of death will be illustrated through this multi-media presentation.

Who should attend?
Crime scene investigators, detectives and supervisors, first responders, crime scene technicians, medical examiners and coroner's investigators, prosecutors and attorneys, and crime laboratory personnel would all benefit from this training course.

Course Content:

• Death Investigation Systems
• Post-Mortem Physiological Changes
• Animal Activity
• Natural Deaths
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Suicides
• Accidental Deaths
• Homicide Scenes
• Forensic Specialty
• The Forensic Autopsy
• Cause and Manner of Death
• Gunshot Wounds
• Sharp Force Injury
• Blunt Force Injury
• Asphyxial Death
• Delivering Death News

For information about Death Investigation training contact:
Dan@christmanforensics.com

For information about Death Investigation training contact:
Dan@christmanforensics.com