Experts

LPA’s Roundtable of Experts: Brilliant, experienced, leaders in their fields…

Over and over again at LPA we hear, "We have spent thousands of dollars with a private investigator and gotten nowhere. Finally someone told us 'call LPA', we looked you up and we wish we would have found you 10 years ago."

Medical doctors are not all podiatrists. Mechanics are not all engine experts. Police, Detective, State Bureau Agents, and FBI Agents does not mean “homicide expert.” And private investigator does not mean “death investigator” or Expert in Unsolved/Unresolved Murder Investigator.

If you have something wrong with your heart, go see a cardiologist, not a podiatrist. If you have something wrong with your car, hire to a mechanic, not a chef. If you have a suspicious death, wrongful death, unsolved murder, or death ruled “suicide” and you suspect it is not or think those who ruled it suicide are wrong, hire LPA. We are an investigative professionals with decades of experience. We are not publicists, we are not hired guns. We do not attack others privately or publicly because it’s not good for any case we are trying to get turned around the other way. We do not “take your case to the media”. There is a time and place for appropriate media usage, there is a time and place to dispute discrepancies. There is a time when we see if the work of another can hold up to scrutiny, but at the beginning of the case is not that time.

For all the reasons above and for many more, LPA is respected by law enforcement, prosecutors, civil attorneys, defense attorneys, and surviving families of victims and decedents because we are discrete and professional. LPA is the place for the law enforcement agency, wrongful death civil lawyer, coroner, prosecutor, or family who is serious about keeping confidential information confidential, which finding answers for you.

LPA’s Roundtable of Experts is the only one of its kind in the business. For centuries, the age-old approach of the ‘roundtable’ has proven valid and reliable for solving even the world’s most complex problems; it’s obvious it’s the solution to solving the simplest to most complex murders as well...

Again, we believe in leadership by design. LPA takes the roundtable approach to solving cases with our seasoned homicide and cold case homicide prosecutors, forensic criminologists, a retired federal agent cold case operations expert, private investigators, death investigators, forensic pathologists, crime scene investigators and reconstructionists, and undercover operatives with consulting experts in forensic pathology, clinical psychology, suicidology, psychological autopsy, bloodstain pattern analysis, shooting incident reconstruction, ballistics, and more... 

Dr. Laura Pettler, Forensic Criminologist, President

Alexis Pettler, Case Analyst, Vice President

Michael Parker, Ret. District Attorney, Legal

Ron Mann, Chief of Field Operations

Stephen Thornthwaite, Case Analyst, Assistant to Dr. Pettler

Doug Young, Criminalist, Kaleidoscope Reconstruction Expert

Ret. Lt. Deputy Sheriff Detective Scott Williams

Mark Gillespie, former Special Agent/USAF Officer, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)

Rus Ruslander, Ret. Police Officer, Ret. Chief Medicolegal Death Investigator, SAR K9 Handler

Zak Carr, Firearm & Toolmark Specialist

US Army Sgt. Emma Sentz, Forensic Services

Dr. Mike McCutcheon, (Ret.) CSI, Kaleidoscope Expert

Dr. Katherin Ramsland, Psychologist, Author, Serial Homicide Expert

*Several LPA Roundtable Experts are not pictured here.


Field Operatives

LPA’s army of field operatives conduct private investigations, conduct surveillance, attend legal proceedings, investigate death scenes, and a myriad of additional types of work. For the safety and security of LPA’s alliances and undercover operatives, we cannot display their photos publicly.


Advisors

Donnie McFall, Advisor, GSA LPA Sales