Medicolegal Death Investigations 

Medicolegal Death Investigations

In collaboration with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice helped facilitate a three (3) day course on Medicolegal Death Investigations in June of 2021. The seminar explored aspects of the cause and manner of death, forensic anthropology, environmental reconstruction of post-mortem events, and distinguished foul-play from alterations caused by other factors. Instruction included crime scene investigations, firearm and toolmark criminalistics, entomology, toxicology, technology in the courtroom, and laws pertaining to death investigations. Also addressed were first responders, trauma, and working with families of homicide victims.