Why apply for and receive a license under the state of Colorado’s new voluntary licensure program?

The Denver Private Investigator Blog recently posed a few questions to Karen Beers, the second private investigator to apply for and receive a license under the state of Colorado’s new voluntary licensure program. Beers is with Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC.

http://denverprivateinvestigator.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/colorados-2nd-licensed-private-investigator-says-licensing-extends-professionalism

Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC is pleased to learn and announced that our primary consulting forensic pathologist, Stephen J. Cina, MD has been confirmed a the new Chief Medical Examiner of a major medical city.

Having known, trained under, and worked with him for 10 years, this is a mutually beneficial and exciting opportunity for him.

We have already heard from investigators in the area that this is an exciting and welcome change and improvement to the ME system.

Congratulations Dr. Cina.

Dr. Cina, a Board-certified Anatomic and Forensic Pathologist, has conducted thousands of autopsies and testified to these findings hundreds of times.  He has also served as an expert witness in dozens of medicolegal proceedings and has reviewed hundreds of autopsies performed by other pathologists.

AFI-LLC believes that medicolegal investigation and consultation is a team effort, offering our clients comprehensive medicolegal services.

Dean began working with Forensic Pathologist Stephen Cina MD, in late 2002 and Karen in late 2004, both as death investigators and forensic autopsy assistants.  Dr. Cina is currently the Associate Medical Director of the University of Miami Tissue Bank and is a Clinical Professor of Pathology at Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine.  Medicolegal investigation, including forensic pathology and forensic toxicology are not limited to death investigation, but are applicable to personal injury and injury causation investigations.  See 'Deaths and Personal Injuries' tab.

Many of use woke up this morning to see the alarming news in Aurora - it has been unfolding, with information changing and being released by the hour. As investigators, we patiently wait for the facts to unfold.

Aurora is home to many friends and colleagues of AFI-LLC and is almost the back yard to many of us. It has brought back memories. We want to make sure that any person needing any kind of support and assistance has the resources needed. So far we do not personally know any directly impacted by this traumatic and deadly event. Very mixed emotions.

We cannot know or understand what any person at the theater, including responders, went and are going through. We can and should offer our support and prayers to everyone.

Colorado has been through a pretty traumatic summer -- let us remember to be there for each other.

At this time, about all that can be said is:

"What we have unfolding is a tragic event in which the information is fluid, facts undetermined and pieces being put together. It is irrelevant to consider uninformed opinions, or make any inferences from unverified information. The facts will present themselves in a timely fashion. Only at that time would it be appropriate to comment."

Respectfully - Dean and Karen

Dean and Karen joined friend and renowned private investigator Francie Koehler's 'PIs Declassified' on Thursday, 07/19/2012!

Learn how families and victims of traumatic events benefit from having the questioned death of their loved ones independently investigated.

Listen and download this show...
http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/63191/pis-declassified