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Welcome
My name is Nancy Burnham-Kreiner. I am the founder of the William Burnham Jr. Death Scene Awareness Project®.The Death Scene Awareness Project® is a non-profit organization who reaches out to support the tireless professionals who carry out death investigations every day in over 3,000 jurisdictions in the United States. With over 17,500 homicides and over 33,000 suicides each year it is clear; death investigation is a serious business.
A death investigation is made up of many professionals including first responders such as EMT's and paramedics, and moves on to CSI units, coroners and pathologists, police and investigators, and forensic scientists. It is often likely at times to include forensic odentologists, botanists, anthropologists and a host of other special sciences.
The Death Scene Awareness Project® was formed as a result of my son's brutal murder in 2006.
The Awareness Project® was also inspired by the 1999 U.S Department of Justice research report entitled; Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator. This research study commissioned by then Attorney General Janet Reno, focused on and examined the need for national standardized death investigation protocols to be put in place across the United States. The study also recommended what those protocols should be.
While significant progress has been made since the report was issued in 1999, there is still much work yet to do. Along with the Dept of Justice research report, the Death Scene Awareness Project® seeks to magnify awareness of the need for death investigation protocols to be followed 'every scene - every time'.
We diligently support and encourage the death investigation community of professionals and desire to elevate them and the invaluable work they do by helping them to keep in the forefront of their hearts and minds the awareness of the tremendous impact a death investigation, well done or poorly done, will have on the family of the victim and their ability to cope going forward as they learn to live a new kind of life, and as they seek to obtain justice in the cases of homicide.
As an organization, we support the idea of recognized certifications earned in the field of death investigation which reflect a comprehensive educational process and an ongoing standard of competency.
I welcome you to the website! If the Death Scene Awareness Project® can be of any assistance to you please contact us.
"The Death Scene Awareness Project® provides a unique human perspective on the importance of competent, complete police work in every death investigation. Nancy Kreiner has transformed her tragedy into a plan to advance death investigation protocol through training and awareness. I endorse the Death Scene Awareness Project®."
Dr. Albert Harper
Forensic Anthropologist
Director
Crime Scene Academy
John Jay College
of Criminal Justice
"The Death Scene Awareness Project brings together expert instructors in a multitude of disciplines that directly impact the quality and knowledge utilized to effectively, completely, and legally process a complex death scene. We only get one chance to do it right when it comes to a homicide or death investigation and this course provides those tools."
Mark Safarik, M.S., V.S.M.
Supervisory Special Agent (FBI Ret.)
Behavioral Analysis Unit
Federal Bureau of Investigation
President
Forensic Behavioral Services, Inc.
"I support the Death Scene Awareness Project®. It benefits us all to remember that protocol ensures we look for and find all evidence; even what isn't seen with the naked eye"view video→
Dave Knoerlein EPC
Forensic Digital Enhancement Expert
MACGLOCLEN strongly supports and endorses the Death Scene Awareness Project® and it's mission to focus on death scene preservation and management.
Charles "Chip" Brown
MAGLOCLEN
Law Enforcement Coordinator
MACLOCLEN
Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network®
Serving Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, as well as Australia, Canada, and England.
MAGLOCLEN is funded by the US Department of Justice to assist Federal, State and Local Agencies communicate, cooperate and coordinate multi-jurisdictional investigation.
MAGLOCLEN provides Pointer Index Database, RissIntel, Intellegence Services, Analytical Services, loan of technical equipment and training.web site→
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Death Scene Awareness Protocol Video
2016 Speakers
Mark Safarik
Had a great dinner with the other instructors at the conference, Joe Kennedy, former NCIS head of Cold Case Unit, Joseph Giacalone, former NYPD Commander, Bronx Cold Case Squad, and Todd Matthews, Case Management Director for NamUs, our conference host Nancy Kreiner of Death Scene Awareness. We had a a great turnout of law enforcement and coroners. I would say 170+. They came from Pennsylvania and surrounding states.Click here to review past symposiums.
