Dan Christman is a municipal police officer, investigator, and owner of Christman Forensics, a consulting and education company, specializing in crime scene reconstruction and bloodstain pattern analysis.

From 1984 to 1997 Dan worked as a Medicolegal Death Investigator in both Idaho and Washington.  He has investigated more than three thousand death scenes, and developed his expertise in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Crime scene Reconstruction. 

Working as an independent consultant since 1995 and as a commissioned police officer since 1997, Dan continues to investigate, review and advise on violent crime cases.

Dan has been writing for, and regularly teaching to audiences which include law enforcement, criminal investigators and attorneys since 1988.  In 1998 he became an adjunct instructor in Criminal Investigations at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC), and in 2001 was certified as a Professional Lecturer in Criminal Investigatons by the Washington State CJTC.

Dan earned his Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Science from Boise State University.  He is also a graduate of the Math and Physics in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Course, sponsored by the RCMP and Carleton University in Toronto, Canada.  In addition, Dan has completed more than 400 course hours of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, and 200 hours of crime scene analysis and reconstruction education.

Dan Christman is a proud member of the International Association of Bloodstain Analysts (IABPA) as well as a past president of the that organization; he is also an active member of:

• The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS),
• The Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction (ACSR),
• The Washington State Violent Crime Investigator's Association, (WAVCI)

As an independent crime scene investigator, Dan has provided crime scene review and assistance in the United States and Canada.  He has been qualified to testify as an expert witness in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Crime Scene Reconstruction, and Death Investigations in State, Federal and Military Courts, as well as the Provincial and Superior Court in British Columbia, Canada.

Click here for an abbreviated copy of Dan's Curriculum Vitae.
To obtain a complete CV contact: dan@christmanforensics.com