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Craig Gravel is a retired Lieutenant with the Oklahoma City Police Department. During his 25
years of service at the Department, he has been assigned to the Investigations Bureau serving as
a detective in the Larceny, Missing Persons, Robbery and Homicide Units. He was promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant in 1998 and was a supervisor in the Crime Scene Unit for the past eleven
and half years. He retired from the Oklahoma City Police Department in 2010.
 
Craig holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice Administration and a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Education from Oklahoma City University. He has nineteen years of
experience and advanced training in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.  Gravel is a certified
Bloodstain Pattern Examiner through the International Association for Identification.  
He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Central Oklahoma since 2002, instructing
Basic and Advanced Bloodstain Pattern Analysis in the Master of Forensic Science Program. He
served on the University of Central Oklahoma’s, Master’s of Forensic Science Advisory Board.
In 2013 he became a full-time faculty member. He has also taught at the University of
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University.
Craig has lectured on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis for various organizations such as the F.B.I,
Regional Organized Crime Information Center, Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations and the
Smokey Mountain Criminal Justice Conference. He has fifteen years of teaching and lecturing
experience.
Craig is a charter member of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction, where he has
served as a board member from 2004/2006 He is a member in good standing with the
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, International Association for
Identification, Oklahoma Division of the International Association for Identification and the
International Association of Crime Analysts.
Craig is certified by IAI as a Bloodstain Pattern Examiner. He has twenty three years of
bloodstain and crime scene case analysis experience.