Meet Our Experts

Celestina Rossi is the Senior Crime Scene Investigator at the Montgomery County
Sheriff’s Office Crime Laboratory in Conroe, Texas. She holds a Master Peace Officer’s
License and has 23 years of law enforcement experience. Since her 2002 promotion to
the crime laboratory, she has been qualified as an expert in latent print examination,
bloodstain pattern analysis, crime scene reconstruction, and shooting incident
reconstruction.

Cele is an Adjunct Instructor at the Texas Forensic Science Academy at the Texas A&M
Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), where she teaches multiple courses, including
Forensic Technician (80 hrs.), Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, and Processing Evidence of
Violent Crimes. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Lecturer in the Forensic and
Investigative Sciences Program, Department of Entomology, at Texas A&M University in
College Station, Texas. She teaches two mini-semester courses in Crime Scene
Investigation and Latent Print Processing.

Cele is the Secretary of the Texas Division of the IAI, a role she has held since 2006.
She serves on the Operations Committee of the Southeast Texas Applied Forensic
Science Facility (STAFSF) at Sam Houston State University. She is also a past
President of the Association of Crime Scene Reconstruction and of The International
Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts.