Statement analysis is critically important in the investigative process and equally as important is the study of time. The vision for this course is two-fold. First to introduce attendees to statement analysis using easy to follow guidelines that are field friendly and applicable to crime scene investigation, death investigation, and homicide investigation in conjunction with an introduction to using Pettler’s Chronology System as a way for CSIs, detectives, coroners, and prosecutors to organize, and present statements and chronology in a jury-friendly way.
Statement analysis is a valuable tool in the investigative process. Linguistic communication can be oral or written. This course is designed to build awareness of the basics in statement analysis so attendees begin to catch things when speaking with subjects, victims, witnesses, etc. that otherwise might go undetected to the untrained ear and eye so evidence can be plugged into timelines towards closing the gaps in an investigation.
Assessment: Students will be assessed for knowledge gained in this course of instruction through the administration of a written examination.
Overview of Statement Analysis 30 minutes
Collecting Information 30 minutes
LPA’s Statement Analysis Procedure 20 minutes
Components of Statement Analysis 20 minutes
Assessment 20 minutes
Dr. Pettler’s career is dedicated to using her life to leave the world better than she found it. Dr. Pettler’s job as a forensic criminologist specializing in staged homicide cases is to analyze physical, behavioral, and sociological evidence towards solving the most challenging murders and death investigations in the world. Dr. Pettler is the Deputy Coroner Commander of the Lancaster County South Carolina Coroner’s Office Mounted Response Unit and is a former North Carolina District Attorney’s Investigator where she was the co-founder and director of North Carolina’s first and only Crime Scene Reconstruction & Behavioral Analysis Program and head of the district’s first Cold Case Task Force.
Dr. Pettler’s career is dedicated to using her life to leave the world better than she found it. Dr. Pettler’s job as a forensic criminologist specializing in staged homicide cases is to analyze physical, behavioral, and sociological evidence towards solving the most challenging murders and death investigations in the world. Dr. Pettler is the Deputy Coroner Commander of the Lancaster County South Carolina Coroner’s Office Mounted Response Unit and is a former North Carolina District Attorney’s Investigator where she was the co-founder and director of North Carolina’s first and only Crime Scene Reconstruction & Behavioral Analysis Program and head of the district’s first Cold Case Task Force.
Dr. Pettler is founder and CEO of Laura Pettler & Associates Death Investigations (LPA), voted “Best Victim Centered Death Investigation Specialist 2020” by CORP Today Magazine, and the 2019 winner of Acquisition International’s “Scientific, Victim-Centered Death Investigation Specialist Award”, naming LPA as the #1 private scientific, victim-centered death investigation firm in the world. Dr. Pettler is a licensed North Carolina, former licensed South Carolina Private Investigator (gave up license to command the mounted response unit), and is the Deputy Coroner Commander of the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office Mounted Response Unit, first coroner’s office based mounted unit dedicated to medicolegal death investigation, search and rescue, public relations, and community outreach. Dr. Pettler’s body of work has been featured on the international stage now for more that 20 years. In 2019, Forensic Science International Synergy Journal published by Elsevier, named Forensic Criminologist Dr. Laura Pettler one of themost influential women in forensics in the world: a well-deserved award for her significant contributions to the field over her career. In 2022, Dr. Pettler was awarded “Best Forensics Businesswoman (USA)” by a panel of esteemed judges of the Global CEO Excellence Awards of CEO Monthly Magazine.
The year 2025 marks Dr. Pettler’s 23rd year in homicide and 28th year in the field. Dr. Pettler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-professional psychology from Geneva College, a Master of Science degree in criminal justice specializing in forensic psychology and forensic science related to homicide investigation from Youngstown State University, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in public safety specializing in criminal justice focused on crime scene staging in intimate partner homicides from Capella University. Dr. Pettler has more than 20 years post-graduate research, field experience, invention, and publication in bullet path and bloodstain pattern analysis and reconstruction in homicide cases. Dr. Pettler is the inventor and LPA is the manufacturer of The Kaleidoscope System Bullet & Bloodstain Reconstruction system used by law enforcement worldwide since 2009.
Dr. Pettler is the author ofCrime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases, published by CRC Press, the first book in the world on staged homicides. Dr. Pettler is the author of the third dissertation in the world on crime scene staging behaviors of crime scene stagers in homicide cases. Dr. Pettler has 14 years postdoctoral research, field experience, and publication in crime scene staging dynamics in intimate partner homicide hot and cold cases. Dr. Pettler is the founder and director of the LPA International Forensics Institute School of Forensic Criminology for Homicide Studies, an online continuing education center focusing on unique courses typically absent from traditional continuing education catalogs for mounted response units, CSIs, detectives, private investigators, coroners, attorneys, and students pursuant to processing crime scenes, interview and interrogation, statement analysis, methodologies, and solving murders.
Dr. Pettler has been a highly respected public figure in the national media for more than 25 years. Dr. Pettler is a Guest Forensic Analyst on CourtTV and CourtTV UK and has appeared on Fox News Channel as well. Dr. Pettler was the “OzTeam Forensic Criminologist” for Dr. Mehmet Oz on the internationally syndicated multiple Emmy-Winning the Dr. Oz Show in seasons 8, 9, 10, and 11. Dr. Pettler was the TV Forensic Criminologist for 2020 Emmy Award Winning show CSI Atlanta Seasons 1 and 2 hosted by Multiple-Emmy Winning Anchor Karyn Greer and Emmy Winning CSI Sheryl McCollum. Dr. Pettler also appeared on numerous true crime television shows on Lifetime, Oxygen, ID, Reelz, Starz, Spike, and other networks; and in 2017 her webTV show, Notorious: True Crime Stories with Laura Pettler Season 1: The Shotgun Slayer about serial killer Edward Surratt’s victims was nominated for Best Director by the International Academy of Web Television Awards. As executive producer, on-camera talent, and a singer-songwriter, Dr. Pettler works in Los Angeles in true crime television and true crime soundtrack music.
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