SinC Colorado Quarterly Meeting

## Details

10:00 AM Meet and Greet

10:30 AM - 12 PM - Kerri Morgan, Special Events Manager for Douglas County Libraries: Developing Quality Panels

As you certainly must know by now, our chapter is embarking on a large project to create statewide (and beyond) relationships with libraries and bookstores. We want to introduce SinC and our author members to as many outlets as possible to forge a symbiotic bond between us all. To that end, we’re developing a newsletter for bookstores and librarians highlighting our members, but mainly to offer free, fun panels that event planners can request where our member authors will come and talk about a variety of topics that we choose.

The morning session of our June 14 Quarterly Event dovetails perfectly with this. Our speaker will be Kerri Morgan, Special Events Manager for Douglas County Libraries. She’ll be able to explain how we can develop fun, quality panels and the best way to approach libraries to present them.
This will be a very informal, conversational Q and A session with her, so I hope you all can join us.

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch (brown bag or visit nearby restaurants)

1:00 - 3:00 PM - A Three-Decade Journey to Justice: The Roger Dean Homicide Investigation

On November 21, 1985, shots rang out as residents were preparing for their day in a suburban neighborhood in Lone Tree, Colorado. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to several 911 calls and found a man bleeding in the street and a woman wearing a bath robe standing over him in the snow. She had tape above her eyes and her wrists were bound. The woman was screaming that they had been robbed and her husband was trying to get away. Her husband also had rope tied around one of his wrists, and he tragically died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Five years later the case was still unsolved, and the surviving widow was the target of unsuccessful extortion attempts. Both cases remained unsolved for over three decades until 2021 when investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) and a tip provided answers.

BIOS

Kerri Morgan is the Special Events Manager for Douglas County Libraries.

Michele Kennedy is a Crime Analysis Supervisor and Investigative Genetic Genealogist with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office where she has worked since 1994. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology/criminal justice and a master’s certificate in forensic criminology. She is also a Certified Law Enforcement Analyst with the International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA). Michele has worked on many of her agency’s cold cases in an analytical role, and in 2019 she participated in her agency’s first investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) investigation on a 1980 sexual assault and homicide. She then became a volunteer search angel helping adoptees and other searchers identify their birth parents using genetic genealogy. She has identified over 100 birth parents since 2019, and in 2020 she was assigned to her agency’s Cold Case Unit to help solve other cold cases with IGG. She currently splits her time between crime analysis and cold cases. Michele co-founded an IGG working group for law enforcement in 2021, hosting training sessions and case presentations. She also started her own IGG company in 2021 to assist other agencies in Colorado and across the country. She’s a member of CBI’s Cold Case Review Team and is a board member for the newly established Investigative Genetic Genealogy Accreditation Board helping develop standards and an accreditation process for IGGs.