Opioid Crisis in America: From Digital Clues to a murder conviction

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Presented at TechnoSecurity&DigitalForensics 2019 by

Ed Michael

Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—is a serious national crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. Every life style and walk of life has seen the destruction and death opioids and fentanyl can do to families. Using extraction and analytics tools, learn how to successfully gather intelligence from scenes and witnesses to prosecute the dealers and suppliers. Given by Detective Ed Michael, of the Orlando Police Department, his lab was pivotal in getting one of the first murder convictions in Florida for an opioid death using mainly digital evidence.