For the past 17 years, Lisa Mayhew has served as the Child Death Investigator and
Trainer for the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and NC Child
Fatality Prevention Team. Her duties include conducting investigations of death of
children under the age of 18 years statewide, and providing assistance on investigations
to local and state agencies. She operates the training program for Child Death
Investigations through the OCME and North Carolina Justice Academy, as well as
providing training to law enforcement across the country. She has a passion for policy
development, interdisciplinary collaboration, communicating with grieving families, and
specializes in scene reconstruction. With both her bachelor and master’s degrees in
Child Development, she spent the first part of her career working with medically fragile
and special needs children and their families. When not working, you can find her on the
back of a horse.

Linda R. Netzel received a B.S. in Chemistry with emphasis in Criminalistics from Metropolitan State College of Denver, in 1991. She has twenty-three years of forensic experience and is currently the director of the Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory.

Prior to becoming the director, she was a criminalist in the DNA and trace evidence sections of the laboratory. Additionally, Netzel has extensive homicide crime scene experience and instructs crime scene investigators on crime scene reconstruction and physical evidence collection and preservation. She has been published in Forensic Science International Genetics, the Journal of Emergency Nursing and CRC Press.

Netzel is a member of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists and the American Board of Criminalistics.

Captain Everett C. Babcock is in his 32nd year as a law enforcement officer. His career started in 1988 for a small agency in Sayre Oklahoma where he worked as both an officer and an investigator before taking a position in 1992 as an Investigator for the District Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma’s 2nd Judicial District, where he was assigned to the District 2 Drug Task Force which investigated major narcotic offenses throughout western Oklahoma.

Sergeant Chris Cognac is a 22-year veteran of the Hawthorne Police Department. He is currently assigned to the Community Affairs Unit but has served in numerous capacities from uniform patrol, to sexual assault and crimes against children detective, to cooperative resource unit, to aviation bureau, to undercover narcotics supervisor.
Cognac is a true believer in the ability of individual officers making a difference in the communities they serve. He uses his networking and communication skills as a force multiplier, putting people who want to help the community with those in need of an opportunity.
Most recently, he has begun to take the simple concept of “Coffee with a Cop” nationwide. He has assisted officers and police departments across the country in implementing their own events that aim to build good communications and trust within those communities.

Cognac is a graduate of the Delinquency Control Institute at the University of Southern California. In his spare time, he is a food and travel writer for magazines and newspapers and develops new food television concepts. He also hosted his own Food Network TV show, The Hungry Detective.

Robbie Williams is a 21-year veteran with the Hawthorne Police Department and is currently a Police Lieutenant and National ‘Coffee with A Cop’ Instructor. Lieutenant Williams past assignments and roles include Watch Commander; Community Affairs Unit Supervisor; Special Victims Investigation Supervisor, and Robbery & Homicide Investigation.

Prior to his career in Law Enforcement, Lieutenant Williams worked as a Mental Health Social Worker at Portals Mental Health Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles, California. The center featured Transitional Residential Services, a Day Treatment Program and Vocational Training Services. In addition, Lieutenant Williams taught psycho-social education focused on independent living skills, substance abuse, medication management, and anger management skills for individuals that suffered from a Dual Diagnosis of substance addiction and server to mild mental health disorders. Lieutenant Williams remains active in addressing community Mental Health issues and serves as a California P.O.S.T Trainer on Mental Health Decision Making for Law Enforcement.

Lieutenant Williams has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and a Master of Science Degree in Counseling with a Specialization in Marriage Family Therapy and has completed over 300 hours of supervised clinical counseling with groups, families and individuals.

Lieutenant Williams is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and is a graduate of the Sherman Block Leadership Institute, and California State University- Los Angeles-Edmund G. Brown Institute of Public Policy. Lieutenant Williams is an experienced adjunct instructor who has taught Community Orientated Policing and Introduction to Criminal Justice at the community college level. Lieutenant Williams is member of the N.O.B.L.E and is a recipient of the 2015 Homer Garret Community Service Award.