Pat Wertheim, International Fingerprint Expert

Pat Wertheim is one of the most prominent and influential latent print examiners in the latent print community. He worked for Lightning Powder as an instructor of identification and crime scene courses, as well as being their Vice President. In 1999, Mr. Wertheim founded "Forensic Identification Training Seminars" and has taught over 100 forensic courses. He's also written and presented over 40 educational papers and articles. He's been active in setting industry standards and has been a member of SWGFAST since 1996. Among his long list of noteworthy cases, he worked in Scotland with David Grieve in exposing the erroneous identification in the Shirley McKie case, he worked with Allen Bayle in England exposing mistakes made in the Alan McNamara case and he was a key witness for the United States Daubert hearings. This is just a brief summary of the contributions and accomplishments Pat Wertheim has brought to the latent print community. Currently he works as a latent print examiner with the Arizona DPS Crime Laboratory, where he's been employed since 1989.