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Tom Bevel is President of Bevel, Gardner and Associates, Inc., a forensic education
and consulting firm. He retired after 27 years with the Oklahoma City Police
Department. His final assignment was as Commander of the Homicide, Robbery,
Missing Persons, and Major Unsolved Case Unit.

Dr. Bevel holds a Doctor of Forensic Sciences from Oklahoma State University and a
Bachelor’s and Master’s in the Administration of Criminal Justice from the University of Central
Oklahoma. He graduated from the Scenes of Crime Course in Hendon, England; the Technical
Investigations Course at the Central U.S. Police Institute, Oklahoma State University at
Oklahoma City, OK; the FBI National Academy; and the Postgraduate Medical-Legal Course at
London Medical College, London, England.

He is the coauthor of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis with an
Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction and the 1st edition of Practical Crime Scene
Analysis and Reconstruction.

Bevel is a charter member of the FBI Scientific Workgroup on Bloodstain Pattern
Analysis (SWGSTAIN) and served on the Board of Directors from 2002 to 2009. He is a Fellow
of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction (ACSR); a Distinguished Member of the
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA); a member of the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Forensic Identification; and a member of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences (AAFS). He served on the Board of Advisers for the Master of Forensic
Science program at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the charter President of both the
IABPA and ACSR and a Distinguished Member of the IAI.

Dr. Bevel has served as a crime scene consultant in 49 U.S. states and 9 foreign
countries. He has been qualified as an expert in crime scene reconstruction and
bloodstain pattern analysis in U.S., state, federal, and international courts.