10/31/2023
Classes are forming, one of our classes is:
“The Art of Finding Missing Persons”
Thousands of missing persons reports are filed each year. Though most are closed, there are several that still sit open, leaving law enforcement stumped. The instructor will discusses her role as a criminal intelligence analyst and forensic artist for the state of Ohio. She goes into detail on some of the missing persons and unidentified remains cases she has worked on over the years and how forensic art and intelligence resources have been used to crack them.
The instructor is Samantha Molnar, a Criminal Intelligence Analyst and Forensic Artist at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, BCI. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Forensic Science and Master’s degree in Criminal Behavior, both from Tiffin University. Molnar has been with BCI for 9 years, assisting local law enforcement agencies, coroner’s offices, and prosecutors’ offices with their major crimes. She has assisted on homicides, cold cases, missing persons, and various other crime types. Molnar has also been with the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force for 3 years. She is most well known for her work with unidentified remains, completing clay facial reconstructions on human skulls in hopes to identify them and bring them home to their families. To date, she has completed 12 reconstructions with half now identified.