Investigative Analysis & Crime Scene Reconstruction
Date/Time
3/3/2026 - 3/6/2026
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Eastern
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Eastern
Event Type(s)
Training Announcement
Event Description
Instructor: Melissa Fernandez CCSA, CBPA
Comprehensive analysis of crime scenes is essential to thorough investigation and may
reveal actions critical to determining truth. This thought-provoking 4-day course was
designed to teach detectives, crime scene investigators, and others involved in evidence
analysis to properly interpret actions within an event. Lecture and practical exercises
enhance critical thinking skills by conducting objective analysis to reconstruct actions
and events leading to fact-based conclusions valuable for case adjudication.
Classroom instruction and practical exercises include:
• Context analysis, logical reasoning, scientific basis and investigative
objectivity.
• Techniques for organizing and evaluating information to aid retrievability,
maximize comprehension, and identify evidence relationships.
• Reconstruction through a process of identifying relationships between scene
evidence, forensic analysis, subject, statements and scene context.
• Introduction to bloodstain patterns and how they relate to other evidence.
• Application of the scientific method for resolving sequences in event
analysis.
• Instruction for preparing accurate and comprehensive reconstruction reports.
• Managing expert courtroom testimony.
Class Requirements:
Prior investigative or crime scene experience with bloodstain patterns is
helpful. Attendees shall bring a laptop with USB connection.
Academy attire policy: Uniform or Business Professional (no jeans, no sneakers)
Suggested Lodging Information:
Holiday Inn Clark
36 Valley Rd. Clark, NJ
Gov’t Rate $145
Tuition: $625
www.libraforensics.com
Comprehensive analysis of crime scenes is essential to thorough investigation and may
reveal actions critical to determining truth. This thought-provoking 4-day course was
designed to teach detectives, crime scene investigators, and others involved in evidence
analysis to properly interpret actions within an event. Lecture and practical exercises
enhance critical thinking skills by conducting objective analysis to reconstruct actions
and events leading to fact-based conclusions valuable for case adjudication.
Classroom instruction and practical exercises include:
• Context analysis, logical reasoning, scientific basis and investigative
objectivity.
• Techniques for organizing and evaluating information to aid retrievability,
maximize comprehension, and identify evidence relationships.
• Reconstruction through a process of identifying relationships between scene
evidence, forensic analysis, subject, statements and scene context.
• Introduction to bloodstain patterns and how they relate to other evidence.
• Application of the scientific method for resolving sequences in event
analysis.
• Instruction for preparing accurate and comprehensive reconstruction reports.
• Managing expert courtroom testimony.
Class Requirements:
Prior investigative or crime scene experience with bloodstain patterns is
helpful. Attendees shall bring a laptop with USB connection.
Academy attire policy: Uniform or Business Professional (no jeans, no sneakers)
Suggested Lodging Information:
Holiday Inn Clark
36 Valley Rd. Clark, NJ
Gov’t Rate $145
Tuition: $625
www.libraforensics.com
Location
Setting: In-Person
John H. Stamler Police Academy
1776 Raritan Road
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
UNITED STATES
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John H. Stamler Police Academy
1776 Raritan Road
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
UNITED STATES
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