Clear & Convincing:Rod Englert

Join Lisa O’Brien and Michael Carnahan on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. Central, for an interview with Chief Deputy (Retired) Rod Englert, a 53-year veteran of law enforcement, who  retired as Commander of the Operations Division, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in Portland, Oregon, in 1995. He started his career with the Downey Police Department after graduating from the Los Angeles Police Academy.  In 1969, Chief Deputy Englert moved to Portland, Oregon and joined the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.   Chief Deputy Englert has a Bachelor’s degree in Police Administration and has done post-graduate work in psychology.  He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy and served as President of the 159th Session.  

Chief Deputy Englert spent the majority of his career working major crimes, narcotics and homicides.  His expertise is in the area of crime scene reconstruction and blood spatter interpretation.  In addition to his case work, he has served as a consultant in over 500 criminal and civil death cases in the United States and has conducted more than 600 lectures and training seminars in 35 states in the U.S., as well as Canada, Russia, England, France and South America.  Chief Deputy Englert also volunteers his time to a team of detectives and forensic examiners examining cold cases in Multanomah County, Oregon.  He’s the author of Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press, 2010), which chronicles his early years growing up in Wall, Texas, his career in law enforcement and his work as an expert in blood spatter interpretation and crime scene analysis.