LYNN BOHART
Mystery Author, Freelance Writer,
Story Coach
 

SHORT BIOGRAPHY Brian Eberle is a Fire Investigator and scent detection K9 handler. He has worked in both law enforcement and the fire...

SHORT BIOGRAPHY Marcia Clark may be most famous for her work as a Los Angeles prosecutor handling high-profile murder cases, but she’s...

INTERVIEW LYNN: Because you work with so many disciplines, are most of your people on staff or hired by contract? DIANE: We are all...

Biography Dr. France received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1983 with an emphasis on forensic...

Amanda and Kevin Lewis lived in Lynnwood, Washington. While they were married for ten years, the marriage began to crumble early on...

Barbara Butcher is an expert in medicolegal death investigation and currently a consultant in forensic investigation, working with...

Women are commonly thought of as the ‘weaker’ sex in our society. In fact, even though women have served in dangerous positions during wartime as nurses and spies, they weren’t formally allowed into the military in our country until 1948 and weren’t allowed into combat for decades after that. The same common myth has existed when it comes to women as killers—especially serial killers. In 1998, Ray Hazelwood of the FBI is famously quoted as saying, “There are no female serial

Bio J.A. Jance is the NY Times bestselling author of more than sixty books in four different series— J.P. Beaumont, Joanna Brady, Ali...

How many of us believe we have good memories? Even great memories? After all, most of us have spent a good part of our lives memorizing facts for tests in school. We can easily memorize phone numbers or a list of things we need at the store. We remember lines from favorite movies and jokes we heard in the third grade. But when it comes to identifying the characteristics of a person’s face or general appearance for a police investigation, or the color, make, or model of a car

ABOUT ROBERT DUGONI “One of the best crime writers in the business.” —Associated Press “Dugoni is a superb storyteller…” —Boston Globe...

When my daughter was young, she loved science. Her favorite show was The Magic Bus, and she devoured the small science kits I gave her for birthdays or Christmas. As she grew a little older, she became fascinated with the ‘body farm,’ where scientists study the decomposition of dead bodies under different weather and soil conditions. She even expressed the desire to go there. Fortunately, none of the facilities offer tours (not that I ever asked), and she eventually shifted h

BIOGRAPHY Barbara Butcher is an expert in medicolegal death investigation and is currently a consultant in forensic investigation,...

BIOGRAPHY Irma grew up in a German town whose name you wouldn’t be able to pronounce. She studied writing at California State...

Our society seems to love labeling people to help identify them. A case in point is the list of identifiers for sexual orientation that gets longer by the day. Or when psychologists search for why someone behaves the way they do and then labels them with their disorder. For instance, someone becomes psychotic or schizophrenic, bipolar or antisocial. And so it is with the debate as to whether there is something called the ‘serial killer gene.’ In other words, it's a gene withi

According to a study by the PEW Research Center, true crime is the most common topic for the highest rated podcasts in the country right now. Of those listening, women are twice as likely to listen than men, along with people with lower formal education. While I fit half of that statistic, I guess I’m an outlier because I earned a master’s degree back at the dawn of time. The point is that stories about crime are popular. Just look at the soaring popularity of fictional murde

BIOGRAPHY Gary is a lifelong resident of Washington state and developed a love of writing in high school. Searching for ways to pursue...

BIOGRAPHY Sarah E. Burr is the award-winning author of the Glenmyre Whim Mysteries, Trending Topic Mysteries, the Book Blogger Mysteries,...

BIOGRAPHY Chief Caldwell served as Police Chief for the City of Mukilteo for nearly five years. He worked more than 29 years with the...

A dog’s sense of smell is 100 to 1,000 times more sensitive than that of humans. Dogs are used for everything from wilderness and avalanche searches to urban disasters and finding dead bodies. Cadaver dogs are trained specifically to identify human remains and can identify hundreds of different scents, even if the body is buried under several feet of earth or is underwater. As a body decomposes, each stage of the decomposition produces different smells, and cadaver dogs are t