AFTE Store - Training Seminar DVD AFTE 2011 – Chicago, IL

Table of Contents

Disc 1

• AFTE 2012 Training Seminar Announcement – Justine Kreso, Onondaga County Center for Forensic Sciences – Syracuse, NY & Jennifer Coombs, Erie County Central Police Services Laboratory – Buffalo, NY
• What’s New in Ammunition – George Kass, Forensic Ammunition Service, Inc. – Okemos, MI
• SWGGUN – Updates and Current Projects – T.L. Price, Kansas Bureau of Investigation – Topeka, KS
• An Empirical Study to Evaluate the Repeatability and Uniqueness of Striations/Impressions in Fired Cartridge Casings Fired in Ten Consecutively Manufactured Slides – Thomas Fadul & Gabriel Hernandez, Miami-Dade Police Department – Miami, FL
• Utilizing the Consistency of Wad Drop Off for Estimation of Shooter Location – Jennifer Bishop, University of Central Oklahoma: Forensic Science Institute – Edmond, OK
• The 10 Consecutive Ruger Barrel Study: A 3D Look Using the PLu-neox from Sensofar – Derrick McClarin, Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences – Birmingham, AL
• Understanding Airsoft – Dan Alessio, Oregon State Police, Portland Metro Forensic Laboratory – Portland, OR
• Five Consecutively Manufactured Chisels – Gerard Petillo, Connecticut Department of Public Safety – Meriden, CT
• Confocal Microscopy and Striated Tool Marks: A Statistical Study and Potential Software Tools for Examiners – Nick Petraco, John Jay College – New York, NY
• The Examination, Evaluation and Identification of 9mm Caliber Cartridges Cases Fired from 1275+ GLOCK Semiautomatic Pistols Manufactured Over an 18 Year Period – Dr. James Hamby, International Forensic Science Laboratory – Indianapolis, IN
• The Evaluation, Examination and Identification of 2,150+ Pairs of Fired Cartridge Cases Fired from Recently Manufactured GLOCK Semiautomatic Pistols – Over a 4.5 Year Period in Calibers 9mm, 357 SIG, 40 S&W, 10mm Auto, 45 GAP and 45 ACP Using Firing Pin Aperture, Firing Pin Impression and Firing Pin Drag Marks – Steve Norris, Wyoming State Crime Laboratory – Cheyenne, WY
• AFTE Digital Reference Collection (DRC) Committee Update – David Wright, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas City, KS

Disc 2

• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre – Lt. Michael Kline, Berrien County Sheriff’s Department – St. Joseph, MI
• Chamber Throat Marks on Bullets and Their Significance in Rifling Marks – Nancy McCombs, California DOJ-Fresno – Fresno, CA
• Theory of Marking Reproducibility – Tsuneo Uchiyama, (Retired) National Research Institute of Police Science – Kashiwa, Japan
• Similar Tools, Different Marks: The Identification of a Pry Bar and Crowbar to Two Sets of Marks at a Crime Scene – Erica Lawton-McWhite, Broward County Sheriff’s Office – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• The Persistence of Chamber Marks Over 1,440 Firings of Two Semiautomatic Pistols – April Stowe, Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences – Dallas, TX
• Pistol Barrel Discrimination: A Numerical Analysis – Rachel Bolton-King, Nottingham Trent University – Nottingham, England
• Utilizing IBIS BULLETTRAX-3D’s Sensor Capturing Technology to Examine Seating Marks on Fired Bullets – Deion Christophe, Oklahoma City Police Department – Oklahoma City, OK
• Our Experience in Building a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) – Pavel Giverts, Israel Police Department – Israel
• Infrared Imaging and Flashcorrelation: Achieving the Goal – John H. Dillon Jr., Independent Examiner – Manassas, VA

Disc 3

• Technology Associated with Infrared Imaging of Cartridge Cases and Bullets and the Quantification of Comparison – Dr. Francine Prokoski, SED Technology, LLC – Fairfax, VA
• FAID2009: Proficiency Test and Workshop – Petra Pauw-Vugts, Netherlands Forensic Institute – Ypenburg, Netherlands
• ASTM 1351-01 Method: Non-Destructive to Harvest and Analyses of Evidence on Firearms – Fred Schmidt, Independent Forensic Investigator – Aurora, IL
• The Use of Advanced 3D Imaging System in Firearms Identification – Rocky Edwards, Santa Ana Police Department – Santa Ana, CA
• Mirror Effect – Evan Thompson, Arizona DPS Northern Regional Laboratory – Flagstaff, AZ
• Virtual Manipulative Tools for Tool Mark Characterization – Dr. Song Zhang, Iowa State University – Ames, IA
• Investigating GSR Patterns using milli-X-Ray Fluorescence Techniques – Rüdiger Schumacher, Forensic Science Institute of the Bundeskriminalamt – Wiesbaden, Germany
• Chamber Marks – A Bridge Linking Application of CMS from Striated Tool Mark to Impressed Tool Mark – Beta Tam, Independent Examiner – Hong Kong
• An Introduction to the FMK Firearms model 9C1B Pistol – April Wong, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – Los Angeles, CA
• Don’t Slip Up on the Slippage – Manuel Muñoz, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – Los Angeles, CA
• An Introduction of the Forensic Science Society Firearms Diploma – Alice Walters, Metropolitan Police Service – London, England

Disc 4

• Correlation Algorithm of Conventional and EBIS Polygonal Bullets – Dr. Danny Roberge, Forensic Technology, Inc. – Montreal, Canada
• A Fatal SKS Incident – Lucien C. Haag, Independent Examiner – Carefree, AZ
• Bullets That Aren’t: Their Physical Characteristics and Their Exterior Ballistics Properties – Lucien C. Haag, Independent Examiner – Carefree, AZ
• Shooting Dynamics: Elements of Time & Movement in Shooting Incidents – Alexander Jason, Independent Crime Scene Analyst – Pinole, CA
• Bullet Signature Identification Using Topography Measurements and Correlations: The Unification of Microscope and Mathematical Comparisons – Wei Chu, John Song, Robert Thompson, NIST – Gaithersburg, MD
• Cartridge Case Signature Identification Using Topography Measurements and Correlations: Unification of Microscope and Mathematical Comparisons – Alan Zheng, Robert Thompson, NIST – Gaithersburg, MD
• Understanding the Legislative Process as it Relate to the Forensic Reform – Amy Driver, Independent Consultant – Washington, D.C.
• Forensic Examination in Grenade Launchers: Do They Leave Marks Sufficient Enough for Comparison Tests? – Nick Tsiatis, Hellenic Police Department – Athens, Greece
• Why a Bullet Doesn’t Behave Like a Rubber Ball – Ricochet on a Hard Surface – Thomas Liebsher, Forensic Science Institute of the Bundeskriminalamt – Wiesbaden, Germany
• AFTE History – Charles Meyers, 2nd President of AFTE (1970-1971)