TRUE CRIME BIOS

Television Personality, Author & Former Death Investigator, Medical Examiner’s Office, New York City

Barbara Butcher, MPH, is one of the nation’s leading experts in medicolegal death investigation and the former Chief of Staff and Director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Over her 23-year tenure, she investigated more than 5,500 death scenes (680 of which were homicides), led major disaster responses including the 9/11 World Trade Center recovery, and directed the creation of the federally funded Forensic Sciences Training Program to promote national standards for death investigation.

An internationally recognized consultant, Barbara has advised the World Health Organization, assisted in global disaster responses, and lectured widely on mass fatalities and forensic science.

She is the author of WHAT THE DEAD KNOW (Simon & Schuster, 2023), featured in Netflix’s Homicide New York, and the host of Oxygen’s true-crime series The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher. Watch the trailer.

Learn more at www.barbarabutcherofficial.com

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Retired Secret Service Special Agent, Polygraph Examiner & Author

Brad Beeler is a retired Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service, where he served for 25 years in both protective and investigative roles. For the last eight years of his career, he was assigned to the National Center for Credibility Assessment at Fort Jackson, where he trained federal criminal investigators and intelligence officers in the art of eliciting information, serving as the course manager for Interview and Interrogation Techniques.

A 17-year veteran polygraph examiner, Brad conducted more criminal polygraphs than anyone in Secret Service history—many involving homicide investigations and crimes against children.

He is the author of TELL ME EVERYTHING: A SECRET SERVICE AGENT’S BLUEPRINT FOR BUILDING TRUST, UNCOVERING TRUTHS, AND MASTERING EVERY CONVERSATION, which distills his decades of experience into practical strategies for enhancing communication, building trust, and uncovering truth in high-stakes situations.

BRAD BEELER

Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent & Interrogation Expert

Scott Duffey is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent who served at the agency’s Baltimore Division for 22 years and as a supervisory agent at its Wilmington, Delaware office. Duffey supervised the violent crime task force squad that investigated gang violence, bank and commercial robberies and juvenile sex trafficking. He also was a municipal police officer in Pennsylvania for six years.

A certified police instructor, Mr. Duffey has served as an instructor for the FBI, teaching interview and interrogation skills to law enforcement professionals worldwide. Duffey has received extensive training in the field of interviewing and interrogating with the FBI, Israeli Security Agency and the basic and advanced courses with the Reid technique. He continues to instruct municipal police officers of Pennsylvania’s southeast region as a certified instructor for the Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission (MPOETC) at the Montgomery County Police Academy.

He has extensive experience in investigation and supervision of complex white-collar, violent crime and sex trafficking cases. Mr. Duffey is currently a Director for the Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute located at the Brandywine Campus, Wilmington, Delaware.

Mr. Duffey also provides on air crime analysis for the FOX, CNN, and News Nation networks.

SCOTT DUFFEY

True Crime Consultant; Host, Coffee & Crime and Former Commanding Officer of NYPD’s Bronx Cold Case Squad

Joseph L. Giacalone is a retired NYPD Sergeant SDS (Supervisor Detective Squad) and nationally recognized expert in criminal investigations and cold cases. During his more than two decades with the NYPD, he served in several leadership roles, including Commanding Officer of the Bronx Cold Case Squad, supervising complex homicide and long-term investigations.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught criminal investigation and cold case analysis since 2005.

Joe is the author of two widely used investigative textbooks: THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE FUNCTION: A GUIDE FOR NEW INVESTIGATORS (4th Edition) and THE COLD CASE HANDBOOK (2nd Edition), both published by Blue 360 Media.

He also hosts the podcast True Crime with The Sarge and delivers The Crime Report every Friday morning on Long Island News Radio WRCN 103.9 FM.

Learn more at josephgiacalone.com

JOE GIACALONE

Host, Wine & Crime; CSI, Cold Case Investigator, Zone 7 Podcast Host and Author

Back by popular demand, Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is a three-time nominated Emmy Award winning CSI from CSI Atlanta, National Law Enforcement Officer Hall of Fame Inductee, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a writer for CrimeOnLine, a forensic and crime scene expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, host of award winning podcast Zone 7, and a working CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. 

Sheryl’s first book, SWANS DON’T SWIM IN A SEWER, is about a serial killer whose daughter is viciously murdered, the case goes cold, and he turns to Sheryl for help.

Sheryl is also the Director of the Wildlife CSI Academy and the US Ambassador for the Wildlife Forensic Academy in South Africa.

Sheryl will be hosting her famous Wine & Crime dinner event where she presents a real cold case for the audience to solve. This is your opportunity to work alongside our true crime experts and learn from the best.  

SHERYL “MAC” MCCOLLUM

Podcast Host, Death Investigator & Author

Joseph Scott Morgan, M.F.S., F-ABMDI, is host of the successful true crime podcast, Body Bags. He is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University where he holds the faculty rank of Associate Professor of Applied Forensics. Morgan holds a Master of Forensic Sciences degree from National University and is a Board-Certified Fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

In 1985, Joseph Scott Morgan began working for the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office in New Orleans. During his tenure as the Senior Investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner in Atlanta, Georgia, Morgan helped establish the national training guidelines for Medicolegal Death Investigators. To this day, Joseph Scott Morgan remains one of less than 200 people nationwide to attain “Fellow” status through the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

Joseph Scott Morgan appears on both Headline News and CNN as the on-air forensics expert. 

In 2013, Morgan was named “Georgia Author of the Year” for his memoir entitled BLOOD BENEATH MY FEET: THE JOURNEY OF A SOUTHERN DEATH INVESTIGATOR.

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Forensic Artist & Adjunct Professor of Forensic Sculpture, New York Academy of Art

For more than 25 years, forensic artist Joe Mullins has used art, anatomy, and technology to help give a face to the unknown. Working closely with law enforcement, medical examiners, and forensic professionals, he creates facial approximations from skeletal remains and provides forensic imagery for long-term missing-person and unidentified-remains cases. His work is rooted in a simple but powerful belief: restoring a face can be the first step toward restoring a person’s identity.

Joe is also dedicated to advancing the field by training the next generation of forensic artists. As an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, he works with graduate students in the Forensic Science Program, teaching the artistic and anatomical foundations of facial approximation. Since 2015, he has also led a unique forensic sculpture course at the New York Academy of Art, where students create facial approximations for actual unidentified-person cases. His workshops and demonstrations have taken him across the United States and internationally, bringing together artists, students, and law enforcement professionals in the shared pursuit of identification.

Originally trained as a graphic designer, Joe studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design and attended James Madison University. He received specialized forensic training through the FBI Academy and is a Certified Forensic Artist through the International Association for Identification. Whether working on a case, teaching in the classroom, or demonstrating his process to the public, Joe’s goal remains the same: to use his skills to help someone recognize a face and give the unknown their name back.

JOE MULLINS

McCracken Poston, Jr.

Attorney, Courtroom Justice Advocate & Author

McCracken Poston Jr. is a Georgia criminal-defense attorney, former state legislator, and the author of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom. The book recounts his defense of an undiagnosed neurodivergent man wrongly accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had. Zenith Man was a CrimeCon CLUE Award finalist and won both the 2025 Georgia Independent Author of the Year award for memoir and a Georgia Spotlight Award..

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