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Detective Michael Woodings has been with the LAPD since 1974. From 1988 to 1989 he was the intelligence officer for the Colombian Task Force, developing intelligence on organized South American theft group suspects. Det. Woodings is currently the officer-in-charge of the Organized Theft Detail, supervising efforts directed at the South American groups. Det. Woodings has received training on the South American groups from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Los Angeles Police Department. He has provided expert testimony in numerous courts. |
| Detective William Speer is a twenty year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, currently assigned to the Robbery/Homicide Division. Det. Speer has citywide investigative responsibility for robberies involving jewelry stores, jewelry salesmen, coin and stamp dealers, pawnshop and Rolex watches. He has specialized in jewelry store robbery investigation for the last eight years and was involved in the Billionaire Boys Club and I-5 Bandits investigations. |
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Special Agent William J. Rehder is a 32 year veteran of the FBI. SA Rehder holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce and Finance and a Law Degree. SA Rehder was assigned to the Los Angeles bank robbery squad in 1968 and is the most experienced bank robbery investigator in the United States. SA Rehder is currently the bank robbery coordinator in the Los Angeles FBI office. He has appeared on such national television programs as "20/20", "America's Most Wanted", "48 Hours" and others. |
| Supervisory Special Agent Ronald P. Walker is a supervisor assigned to the Denver FBI office. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling/Psychology and is a former United States Air Force pilot. SSA Walker was a Senior Criminal Investigative Profiler at the FBI's National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime and has consulted in over 700 world wide investigations involving homicide, sexual assault, child abduction, kidnapping, extortion, arson/bombing, organized crime, political corruption and counter-intelligence matters. |
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William R. Wipprecht is a Senior Vice-President and Director of Security for Wells Fargo Bank. He has responsibility for the physical and operational programs and manages the Threat Management and Executive Protection programs. Mr. Wipprecht is a Certified Protection Professional and a Certified Financial Services Security Professional. He is a past Chairman for the American Bankers Association Security Committee, has served on several national task forces and has contributed numerous security articles to several publications. |
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Dr. John Macdonald, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, is the author or co-author of twelve books on crime and criminals. As a forensic psychiatrist he has interviewed over 400 murderers and a wide range of other criminal offenders. During the last fifteen years he has talked to members of the Irish Republican Army on the street, in their homes and in Long Kesh, a prison in Northern Ireland. For over twenty years he has responded to crime scenes with Denver detectives, and he has attended many police training sessions including two weeks training in hostage negotiation at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. |
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Thomas F. Mulvahill has been a Deputy District Attorney with the Denver District Attorney's Office since 1990. Mr. Mulvahill obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1987. He was a Municipal Prosecutor and Supervisor of Prosecution in the Lakewood City Attorney's Office. Mr. Mulvahill coordinates all attorney training activities in the D.A.'s Office and instructs at the Denver Police Academy. Mr. Mulvahill also instructs elementary students through the District Attorney's Courtrooms to Classrooms program. |
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