Stuart Somershoe began his career as a police officer with the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) in 1996. Since becoming a detective in the PPD Missing and Unidentified Person’s Unit in 2007, Stuart has investigated thousands of missing person cases, some of which received widespread media attention and spotlighted on such programs as 20/20, Dateline, and Disappeared. Stuart has been featured in books and media about missing and unidentified person cases, including Skeleton Crew (Simon & Schuster, 2014) by Deborah Halber, The Long-Term Missing (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) by Silvia Pettem, and the Missing Alissa podcast by Ottavia Zappala. In December 2022, Stuart retired from the Phoenix Police Department. He continues to work in the missing person field as a volunteer and consultant.

Marianne Flynn Statz joined the Madison Police Department in 1991 and served in a variety of positions before retiring in 2018. As a Detective, her cases included sexual assaults, stalking, crimes against children, domestic violence, homicides and missing persons. Marianne served on the SWAT team, the Officer Involved Shoot team, the Cold Case Team and founded the Child Abduction Response Team. She served on the Wisconsin MMIW Task force and is a current member of the Wisconsin Cold Case Review Team. Marianne instructs the Investigation and Prosecution of No Body Homicides course for the National Criminal Justice Training Center and provides consultations to agencies investigating No Body cases. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, graduating with a B.A. in Philosophy.

Bob is a 45-year veteran prosecutor. Bob spent nine years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s office. In 1987, he came to Wisconsin as an Assistant District Attorney in the Felony Unit of the Dane County District Attorney’s Office. In 2014, Bob joined the Criminal Litigation Unit of the Wisconsin Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General. Bob has lectured on all aspects of prosecution and investigation of crimes, including but not limited to murder, child abuse, sexual assault, gang crimes, sexual assault, strangulation, victims’ rights, competency to stand trial, the mental disease or defect defense, the rules of evidence, prosecutor ethics, law enforcement investigations and working with prosecutors’ offices, all aspects of trial practice, witness preparation, sentencing and plea negotiations. Bob is certified as a Trial Advocacy Instructor by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Treena Kay has been a prosecutor for 24 years. Ms. Kay is currently the Division Chief of the Trial Division. Treena began prosecuting capital and non-capital homicides in 2005. In 2009, she started collaborating with the Phoenix Police Department’s Missing and Unidentified Person Unit. This collaboration involves the investigation of missing person/bodiless homicide cases. In her career, Ms. Kay has prosecuted seven bodiless homicides. Five of the cases were resolved through plea agreements and two were convicted at trial of First Degree Premeditated Murder. She has prosecuted an additional eight homicide cases that were charged as bodiless homicides but during the prosecution, the victims’ remains were recovered. In addition to supervising close to a hundred attorneys, Ms. Kay continues to work with law enforcement agencies when they suspect a missing person investigation is a bodiless homicide case.

He began prosecuting homicides in 1998, and during his time there tried 20 homicide cases and investigated many more. Although he was a federal prosecutor, Mr. DiBiase spent most of his career in the far grittier world of D.C.’s Superior Court. Tad specialized in domestic violence and forensic homicide cases. At various times with the U.S. Attorney’s Office he served as the Deputy Chief of the Misdemeanor Section, Chief of the Third District Homicide/Major Crimes Section, Special Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for Professional Development and Training, and Deputy Chief of the Homicide Section. Tad is the nation’s leading expert on no body homicide cases. Mr. DiBiase regularly consults with police and prosecutors across the country and internationally on no-body homicide cases and has advised on nearly 50 cases.