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This is Laura Richards of Real Crime Profile.

Today's episode was recorded at CrimeCon in Indianapolis this June, where I had the pleasure of introducing Dr. Laura Petler,

who gave a presentation about crime scene staging and homicide cases, and she also wrote the book of the same name.

After her talk, I managed to grab Laura so that we could sit down and hear more about her work, and Lisa joined the conversation later on when she found us.

Dr. Laura is a real-renacence woman, and she is one of the foremost experts in the world in investigating staged homicides.

She's a TV producer and a host, an author, a singer-songwriter, and as we found out through interviewing her, she's a lover of dogs, horses, and medieval weapons.

We really hope you enjoy our discussion with Dr. Laura Petler as much as we did talking with her.

My job as a crime scene-rate constructionist of the district is to build crime scenes and move them into the courtroom to bring the crime scene to the jury.

And we do this by using mannequins. We use different replicas such as styrofoam heads with dowrods and lasers.

Lasers are huge for me. I do a lot with different lasers.

So we've got it almost about right right here.

Her work has added a new dimension to our efforts to prosecute in our district.

Continue on our stringing.

The value of her work to me is priceless because she is able to bring us an element of the CSI that you see on TV and our courtrooms and our rural counties.

Jurors today have come to expect that, and now we are actually able to deliver it to them.

Hello and welcome to Royal Crime Profile. I'm Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard, trained at the FBI, and founder and director of Paladin National Stalking Applicacy Service.

And we're here at CrimeCon, as many of you know, and I've had the absolute pleasure of introducing a fantastic professional called Dr. Laura Petler.

And I'm going to leave it to Laura to say a little bit about herself.

And we're going to give you a little bit of an overview of some of her fascinating work.

Thank you, Laura, for having me today. And thank you for such a warm welcome and introduction during our presentation earlier.

I am a forensic criminologist, and I specialize in domestic violence homicides, specifically cold cases, and most often the type of cases that we get are staged cases.

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