Jason is a member of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office where he has served for twenty-seven (27) years. He currently holds the rank of Commander of Police. In that role, Jason leads the Special Victims Division and Forensic Services Initiative. The Special Victims Division focusses on Human Trafficking related cases while the Forensic Services Division is responsible for the investigation of human identification cases, complex deaths, cold missing person and homicide cases, and death care industry incidents. He has made local and national headlines for leading major investigations and closing several high-profile cold cases. Among these are the Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery Case, the probe into the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, and the identification of three (3) of the victims of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Recently, he has filmed two (2) separate, multiple part series on the Discovery ID channel called “Deadly Legacy” and “The Clown and the Candyman”. He also appeared in “Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes” which aired on Netflix. Jason has completed in depth research and field work regarding the burial of Cook County’s Indigent, Unclaimed, and Unidentified. He has served the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as the Vice-Chairman of their Advisory Board and has assisted that office with several items like the proper handling of Unidentified Deceased Person cases. As a result of his investigations, Jason has worked with county and state officials in drafting legislation regarding public burials and certain forensic methods. Recently, he drafted substantial amendments to the Illinois Missing Persons Identification Act which were signed into law. He has formed a Forensic Archaeology Team and has conducted dozens of grave exhumations and inspections to include clandestine grave excavations.

Kim started her career in the death investigation field as a Deputy Coroner/Medicolegal Death Investigator in 2001 at the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. She was promoted to Coroner of Sacramento in 2014 where she served until retirement in 2022. While serving as the Coroner for Sacramento County, she introduced the ANDE Rapid DNA technology into the identification process of the victims of the 2018 Butte County Camp Fire which became the first major incident in the United States where Rapid DNA and FIGG were used in disaster victim identification. In 2019, she used Rapid DNA technology to help identify thirty-four disaster victims in the Santa Barbara County Conception Boat Fire. After retirement, she started her own consulting business and in 2023 assisted with the identifications of the Maui Wildfire victims.

Brian has 25 years of experience as a medicolegal death investigator and currently serves as the Chief, Medical Examiner Investigations for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He oversees investigations, transportation, mass fatality and has extensive experience responding to and coordinating multiple fatality incidents. He is a fellow with the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators and serves on the ABMDI board.

Mark works in the Department of Forensic Biology, New York City’s DNA crime lab and the largest of its kind in North America. Throughout his 28 years with NYC, he has investigated thousands of criminal and missing persons cases. He is the manager of the World Trade Center DNA Identification Team, a unit dedicated to advancing science and helping return loved ones to their families. Mark has been recruited by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and several foreign countries to assist in locating the missing and designing protocols to further this ability. Additionally, he serves on the Missing Migrant Identification Task Force at our nation’s border. During mass fatalities, Mark is the Family Assistance Center Manager for New York City. His command of required operations gained by handling worldwide incidents helped shape protocol from lessons learned. Mark brought Rapid DNA technology to New York for use in disaster victim identification to improve and hasten the process. Using his expertise, Mark created New York City’s Missing Persons Day. This is a multiagency event designed to bring together relatives and friends of missing persons for the purpose of collecting information to find and identify their family members. Mark has appeared on television and documentaries hundreds of times with features on Netflix, HBO, 60 Minutes and Time Magazine. He has been a keynote speaker forcorporate events and serves as a professor and forensic advisor for Rutgers University.