| Location | Maritim Hotel Conference Area, (Room: Mallorca A) |
| Presentation by | Silke Brodbeck |
| Coordinates | 51.276051°N, 6.768404°E |
| Date/Time | Fri 24.10. 10:45-11:45 o'clock (60 Minutes) |
| Number of seats | 24 |
| Wheelchair | This event is accessible by wheelchair |
Silke Brodbeck
This presentation takes a view over the crime scene work in murder cases over time. Starting from Hans Gross, an Austrian lawyer who is the grandfather of criminalistics and ending at modern laser scanning at crime scene work. It will show, which areas have changed with the times and what has changed. And, which areas, surprisingly haven’t changed.
What is the difference between crime scene work in 1900 and today? What are the similarities?Dr. Silke Brodbeck, MD, appointed and sworn court expert for bloodstain pattern analysis and crime scene reconstruction is specialized in murder cases.
She is German-Finnish and lives and works in Usingen, near Frankfurt am Main. She has a medical background in forensic pathology and neurosurgery. She is the author of several forensic publications and two books. Her case work is on an international base, mainly in the German speaking countries. She is the head of the scientific working group within the German Association of Criminalistics and has trained experts from more than 30 countries in her field, being the first European BPA educator with her company the Blutspureninstitut. Next to the teachings in her company she is also a lecturer at the Brandenburg Technical University. She introduced the Liquid-Latex-Lifting as a crime scene technique for the securing of Bloodstains, fingerprint evidence and DNA after arson in the German speaking countries and in Scandinavia.