National Indian Country Training Initiative Training Announcement
Course: Hidden Homicides: Overcoming the Challenges of Staged Crime Scenes
When:   June 10-13, 2025
Where: National Advocacy Center, Columbia, SC
Click Here to Register:  https://app.smartsheetgov.com/b/form/97b8160e0e71445f9ea4311bf48b7f95

Join the leading experts in the country from the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, a program of Alliance for HOPE International, and the Department of Justice’s National Indian Country Training Initiative in a dynamic, hands-on 3.5-day course on strangulation and suffocation murders.

Seasoned investigators, medical examiners, and prosecutors can be misdirected by killers and can close highly suspicious cases as accidents, suicides, or undetermined cause of death cases. This course will identify the primary mistakes made in staged crime scene cases and walk attendees through the pathway to build prosecutable homicide cases. Attendees will work on actual cases and meet the surviving family members of the victims. Registration is limited. Priority will be given to multidisciplinary federal, state, and Tribal teams working in Tribal communities. Prosecutors, law enforcement, advocates and medical personnel are encouraged to register as a team.

This class contains content that some may find disturbing. For example, numerous autopsy and gunshot wound photographs will be incorporated into lectures and exercises. Please only register to attend this class if you are certain of your ability to handle the content. Also, this class is very popular, and they typically have several hundred applicants they are unable to accommodate. Please register only if you are committed to attending.

There is no cost to attend this training. All travel and lodging expenses are covered by the National Indian Country Training Initiative (NICTI) through the Office of Legal Education.

Registration deadline: March 28, 2025

Applicants will receive notification of their application status by April 14, 2025.

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys will provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities.  Requests should be made to Heather Cumper as early as possible, preferably at least two weeks in advance of the seminar.  No nominee will be excluded from a course on the basis of a disability-related accommodations request. This training is authorized under the Government Employees Training Act.

If you have any questions regarding this training, please feel free to contact Lamesha Bowman at Lamesha.Bowman@usdoj.gov, Deborah Thomas at Deborah.Thomas@usdoj.gov, or Leslie A. Hagen at Leslie.Hagen3@usdoj.gov.