The Series Editor for Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations is Lieutenant Commander (retired) Vernon J. Geberth, New York City Police Department, who was the commanding officer of the Bronx Homicide Task Force, which handled more than 400 homicides a year. Geberth has been president of P.H.I. Investigative Consultants, Inc., since 1987. He has more than 40 years of law enforcement experience and has conducted homicide investigation seminars for more than 60,000 attendees from more than 7,500 law enforcement agencies. He is an author, educator, and consultant on homicide and forensic investigations. He has published three best-selling books in this series, Practical Homicide Investigation, 4th edition, Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives, and Practical Homicide Investigation: Checklist and Field Guide. He created, edited, and designed this series of more than 40 publications to provide contemporary, comprehensive, and pragmatic information to the practitioner involved in criminal and forensic investigations by authors who are nationally recognized experts in their respective fields. He welcomes the opportunity to review new proposals for books covering any area of criminal and forensic investigation and may be reached through his email, vernongeberth@ practicalhomicide.com.