Meet Our Experts
Meet the professionals behind Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and top-tier forensic consulting & training.
Craig Gravel is a retired Lieutenant with the Oklahoma City Police Department. During his 25
years of service, he worked in the Investigations Bureau as a detective in the Larceny, Missing
Persons, Robbery, and Homicide Units. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1998 and served as
a supervisor in the Crime Scene Unit for the past eleven and a half years. He retired from the
Oklahoma City Police Department in 2010.
Craig holds a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Administration and a Bachelor of
Science 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 (UCO) since 2002, teaching
Basic and Advanced Bloodstain Pattern Analysis in the Master of Forensic Science
Program. He served on the University of Central Oklahoma’s Master of Forensic Science
Advisory Board.
In 2013, he became a full-time faculty member in the Chemistry Department
and the Forensic Science Institute at UCO. He has also taught at the University of Oklahoma
and Oklahoma State University.
Craig has lectured on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis for organizations including the F.B.I.
Regional Organized Crime Information Center, the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations, and the
Smokey Mountain Criminal Justice Conference. He has twenty years of teaching and lecturing
experience.
Craig is a charter member of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction and has served
on the board since 2004/2006. He is a member in good standing with the International
Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, the International Association for
Identification, the 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
experience in analyzing bloodstain and crime scene cases.