Eric Kovanda is currently a Lieutenant with the Carlsbad Police Department in San Diego County, CA. He began his law enforcement career in Connecticut in 1995. He has worked most of his career as a detective specializing in violent crime investigations. He spent several years assigned to the Cold Case Unit of the Connecticut Chief State Attorney’s Office and the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force. During his most recent investigative assignment with the Carlsbad Police Crimes of Violence Unit, he utilized Genetic Genealogy to solve the cold case murder of Jodine Serrin, which occurred in Carlsbad, CA on Valentine’s Day in 2007. The Serrin murder, solved in November of 2018, was the first case in San Diego County to be solved using Forensic Genetic Genealogy.

Ed O’Carroll began his public service as an Emergency Medical Technician and Assistant Chief of an Ambulance Squad in New York. After relocating to the National Capital Region, Ed started his law enforcement career on September 11, 1989, with the Fairfax County (Virginia) Police Department and retired in early 2023. During more than 33-year career in law enforcement, he has served in every position from cadet to major. His recent executive assignments have included Director of the Media Relations and Internal Affairs. He is the immediate past Bureau Chief of the Major Crimes, Cyber and Forensics Bureau. Ed is a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy. Currently, Ed also serves as a national certified trainer for the Refuse to Be A Victim program. Ed just completed a decade of service as a trustee on the Fairfax Police Officers Retirement System Board that provided oversight to a nearly 2-billion-dollar investment fund.

Anne Marie Schubert has over 32 years of law enforcement experience and is a nationally recognized expert in forensic DNA. She was elected District Attorney for Sacramento County, California in 2014 and served in this capacity until December 2022. Notably, in 2018, her office led the investigation and prosecution of Joseph DeAngelo, the “Golden State Killer using Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG). Since the arrest of DeAngelo, her team has used FIGG to identify the NorCal Rapist, unidentified human remains and partnered with the California Innocence Project to exonerate Ricky Davis after 15 years of wrongful conviction. Today, she is nationally recognized in her knowledge of forensic DNA and has trained law enforcement across the world on the use of Forensic investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG) to solve violent crime, exonerate the innocent and identify human remains.