November 3-4, 2022 | Randolph, MA
Join us for an intensive training focused on understanding and building relationships between the forensic pathologist, homicide investigator, and prosecutor in successfully investigating and prosecuting child homicide cases. Learn autopsy protocols, forensic essentials, and the criticality of determining the cause and manner of death. Understand the unique aspects of investigating a child homicide including interviewing and interrogation, suspect pool development and the role and importance of the prosecutor in gaining appropriate convictions.
Jim Holmes has been a certified law enforcement officer in Wisconsin since 1995. He has served with Dane County Sheriff's Department as a sheriff's aide and a patrol officer with the Fitchburg Police Department before obtaining a position as a special agent with the Wisconsin Department of Justice/Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in 1996. Jim was assigned to DCI's White Collar Crimes Bureau for four years, while also being assigned to DCI’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit from 1998-2001. Jim joined DCI’s Major Crimes Unit in 2000 where he has been involved in numerous adult and child homicide and equivocal death investigations, officer involved death investigations, murder-for-hire cases, missing and abducted children cases, child sexual exploitation, and child abuse and neglect cases. In his assignment to DCI’s Major Crimes Unit, Jim has continuously been assigned and has worked several cold case homicide investigations.
Dr. Katherine Maloney is a forensic pathologist and the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner at the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office in Buffalo, New York. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo Medical School. She attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts and completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, New York. She trained in forensic pathology at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York, New York, where she also did a year of training in forensic neuropathology and cardiac pathology. She is board certified in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and forensic pathology.
For the past four years Tom has been an instructor for NCJTC in various class including Child Homicide, Cold Case Homicide and Major Case Investigations. Mr. Biesty was an accomplished and well-respected attorney and leader in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office with a 26 year record of prosecutorial excellence. He has an extensive trial experience across a wide spectrum of cases including many first-time prosecutions for the State of Illinois. For 15 years Tom was a Supervisor in Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, IL. Some of his responsibilities include, but are not limited to, coordinating investigations among various law enforcement agencies and applying new methods and science to solve cold case crimes. Tom has been the recipient of numerous awards in 2015 and 2013 the Award of Excellence from the Illinois Homicide Investigators Association.
