Dr. Sam Andrews completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta in 1994. He received his medical degree from the University of Alberta in 2000 and completed his anatomical pathology residency at the University of Alberta in 2005. He also completed a one year forensic pathology fellowship at the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2006. Dr. Andrews became an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner for the Province of Alberta in Calgary, Alberta in 2006.

Dr. Owen Beattie has been with the University of Alberta since 1980, where he teaches and conducts research in physical anthropology. Earlier research projects involved survey and excavation of Arctic archaeological sites associated with 19th and 18th Century British exploration of the Northwest Passage. Beattie is best know for assisting in exhuming the bodies of the doomed Franklin expedition in 1983, and leading the forensic analysis of the same. The following year (1984) Beattie caused a stir in the academic community when he suggested lead may have been a factor in the death of the Franklin expedition, after he discovered high levels of it in the corpse of John Torrington, a petty officer on the Franklin expedition who died in 1846. Beattie subsequently authored a very successful book with John Geiger on his Franklin adventures and findings title "Frozen in Time," published by Western Producer Prairie Books in 1987.

Currently, Beattie is conducting collaborative research investigating facial anatomy in young people with dysmorphologies, and collaborative research looking at the use of insects in determining elapsed time since death in forensic investigations. He assists the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Edmonton in cases involving the identification of decomposing or skeletonized human remains, and has been a forensic expert for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights in investigations of human rights and humanitarian issues in Rwanda, Somalia, and Cyprus.

Dr. Lynne Bell is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, and a member of the Centre for Forensic Research at SFU. She obtained her PhD from UCL, Dept Anatomy and Developmental Biology, UK; she held a Prestigious Postdoctoral FRD Fellowship at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; was a Wellcome Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London. She is a forensic anthropologist and her scientific research interests include isotopic mass spectrometry to track human beings temporally and geographically. This type of work is important to forensic identification and human surveillance. Other long-standing work includes the identification and recovery of molecular information from human skeletal material and understanding associated diagenetic changes which impact skeletal preservation at the microstructural level. She also has interests in the recovery and identification of clandestine graves using remote sensing technology.

John Evans was a police officer with both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Edmonton Police Service. He served in a variety of duties including as a Crime Scene Officer. His cutting edge work in new technologies was internationally recognized and led to his secondment to the Canadian Police Research Centre. He now works for Defence Research Development Canada - Centre for Security Sciences as the project manager for Western and Northern Canada developing new technologies for emergency first responders.

Dr. David Sweet is a Vancouver-based forensic odontologist who's making an impression on the global scene with his leading-edge work. To read more about Dr. Sweet, click here.

Barbara Smith is the bestselling author of 25 books. Canadian social history is one of her lifelong interests, and she has also taught writing-related courses in schools from elementary to university level and for private industry. Barbara and her husband, Bob, live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.