Consultants

James M. Adcock, PhD

Dr. Adcock brings over 30 years of experience to every consultation. He has been a criminal investigator, a chief deputy coroner, certified law enforcement trainer, death investigation consultant, professor of criminal jusrtice and forensic science and leader of many cold case teams who have evaluated cases from numerous police departments throughout the country. For addtional details please review his biographical sketch or email him for his curriculum vitae.

Biographical Sketch

James M. Adcock, Ph.D.
Dr. Adcock served twenty years in the U.S. Army primarily as a Special Agent Criminal Investigator conducting criminal investigations in Viet Nam, Panama, Maryland, California, South Carolina and in Germany. He progressed from a basic investigator to Special Agent in Charge and Operations Officer supervising as many as 20 investigators. In 1976 he completed a one-year Fellowship in Forensic Medicine at the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and besides attending numerous investigative seminars he also attended Scotland Yard's Advanced Detective Course at Hendon in London.

Soon after retirement Dr. Adcock began working as the Chief Deputy Coroner for Investigations in Richland County, Columbia, SC, while he returned to school to work on his doctorate at the University of South Carolina. During this time he was certified in both Georgia and Florida (IPTM) to conduct training for Law Enforcement and coroners in their respective police academies and lectured extensively in other states.

In 1997, prior to graduating, he accepted a tenure track position (received his Ph.D in 2001 and tenure in 2004) at the University of New Haven in their Criminal Justice and Forensic Science programs. He then became the director of the Investigative Services Program that went from 75 students in 1999 to over 425 in 2007. He designed an advanced investigative techniques course (undergrad) and a death investigation course (grad). He also taught the Advanced Investigation Courses for the Forensic Science Grad program.

In the spring of 2004 Dr. Adcock was a visiting professor at the Yale Law School. This was part of a joint venture between Yale and the University of New Haven to help design the mission statement and a case processing protocol for the newly created Connecticut Innocence Commission.

August 2008 he accepted a position at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD to teach and design forensic related programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels within the department of criminal justice. By the end of the academic year he had successfully designed 5 courses in forensic investigations at the undergrad level and 7 at the grad level, both of which were awarded certificates by the State of Maryland Higher Educational system.

Presently, Dr. Adcock is teaching part-time for the University of Southern Mississippi and online criminal justice courses for Kaplan. He is also busy designing a book series titled "The Law Enforcement Guide to Investigations", and consults on death cases for police departments, attorneys and families.

Outside academia Dr. Adcock is a fellow with the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science located at the University of New Haven where he designed a Cold Case Workshop and lectured for the institute on death investigation and managing the investigative process. For two years he supervised forensic science graduate students as they evaluated cold cases from police departments around the country. He has been, and continues to be a very active fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) serving on the Board of Directors from 2006-2008 and as a Vice-President for the term 2008-2009. He is also a member of the AAFS Ethics Committee.

Dr. Adcock can be reached at jadcock@TheCRUC.com

Sarah L. Stein, MFS

Ms. Stein is a Doctoral candidate in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her projected date of graduation is May 2012. Presently she is teaching Criminal Justice and Forensic science courses in the Social Sciences Department, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA while she finishes up her dissertation. Ms. Stein received her Master's in Forensic Science in 2007 from the University of New Haven. In 2004, she received her BA from American University in The Victimology of Pedophilia, a self designed Major. Ms. Stein has two years of experience analyzing cold cases for the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science and for a Connecticut Police Department; she also has extensive experience in assisting families of abducted and murdered children.