Dr. Gabriele Suboch

Dr. Gabriele Suboch is a part-time professor in criminal justice and forensic studies at different Universities. She obtained a Ph.D. from Northcentral University, and her dissertation topic was the use of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis. She developed and teaches Bloodstain Pattern Analysis courses online and laboratory courses on campus at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida for 3 years. She also teaches criminal justice and forensic courses at Colorado State University Global Campus for over 10 years. Gabriele has been teaching criminal justice and forensic courses at Northcentral University for over 19 years, chairs dissertations for over 10 years, and is a subject matter expert in criminal justice doctoral dissertation committees.


Gabriele has over 30 years of law enforcement experience at different agencies such as Bavarian State Police in Germany, and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Myers, Florida. After retiring from her full-time career in law enforcement as a Crime Scene Specialist, she volunteer as Auxiliary Deputy in the crime scene unit training detectives and CSI personnel, as well as responding to homicide crime scenes for 9 years. She consults with attorneys and law enforcement agencies for Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and crime scene reconstruction.

She spent most of her law enforcement career in crime scene investigation and conducted Bloodstain Pattern reconstructions at scenes. She holds the International Association of Identification certification as a certified Bloodstain Pattern Analyst for over 10 years and is currently in the recertification process. She has over 1,300 hours of crime scene BPA and law enforcement training. She attended BPA training by Dr. Herbert MacDonnell at the Blood Institute in Corning, N.Y., and the Math and Physics in BPA training at the Ontario Police College in Canada as well as the advanced BPA course at Metro Dade. She is a founding member of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) subcommittee on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and participated in the task group developing standards for training and education in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.


She is a member of professional organizations such as Alpha Phi Sigma Criminal Justice Honor Society as the advisor for Northcentral University, the International Association of Identification (IAI), the Association of Crime Scene Reconstruction (ACSR), the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA), and the Florida Division of the International Association of Identification (FDIAI) and the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System (FEMORS). She instructs workshops and presentations about Bloodstain Pattern Analysis at FDIAI annual conferences. She also presented at the IABPA annual conference in Atlantic City, NJ. She is court certified as an expert witness in bloodstain pattern analysis, fingerprint technology, crime scene investigation, crime scene photography, and firearms. She was the lead crime scene investigator and testified in high-profile cases such as the Gateway double murder, the Juan Mendez double murder in Lehigh Acres, Florida, and the murder of Mrs. Lame, which had been broadcasted live on Court TV, Internet, and Oxygen TV.


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