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October 2015 Meeting
October 6, 2015 @ 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
Business: TBA
Author Spotlight: Allen Eskens – In the Path of the Beast
Speaker: Terry Smith, retired from the BCA (see short bio below) will talk about the homicide investigation classes he taught to police officers.
From Terry:
I started in law enforcement as a Bloomington Police Officer in 1966. I worked as a uniformed cop for five years, then was assigned to the narcotics section for the remainder of my time there. In 1973 I was hired as a Special Agent by the BCA, assigned to the St. Paul Office. I did stints in the BCA’s Organized Crime and Narcotics Sections and served as a tactical member of the SWAT Team. In the mid 1980’s I became a homicide investigator.
In 1986 I was promoted to Special Agent in Charge of the BCA’s Bemidji Regional Office. There I supervised an office staff and twenty-plus agents who worked mostly homicide and major drug cases in the top half of Minnesota. Between 1986 and my retirement, in 2003, my group conducted about 450 death investigations. Many of our cases were routine, as homicides go, and some received extensive national attention. I supervised the Katie Poirier Case (nineteen-year-old clerk kidnapped from a convenience store in Moose Lake, murdered, body burned in a fire pit) and the Julie Holmquist Case (seventeen-year-old girl roller blading near Hallock, abducted, murdered, body thrown into a pond).
I’ve been a featured speaker at a number of law enforcement seminars. My favorite one happened a few years ago when I was invited to Alaska to do a presentation to the Alaska State Troopers on investigating abduction cases. Until a few years ago I regularly taught homicide investigation classes to police officers.