Dr. Lerah Sutton is the Director of the Forensic Medicine Program at the University of Florida College of Medicine and the Assistant Director of the Maples Center for Forensic Medicine. She is an award-winning educator, teaching both academic and continuing education courses to graduate-level academic students, law enforcement, medicolegal death investigators, and forensic science professionals. Dr. Sutton is a Medicolegal Death Investigator and the Deputy Commander within the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System (FEMORS). She serves on the NASA Chief Health and Medical Officer’s Advisory Panel on Forensics and is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Academy of Forensic Science, the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners, the International Forensic Medicine Association, and the Council of Forensic Science Educators. She actively consults for over 100 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, medical examiners, and coroners’ offices on both active and cold cases related to her areas of expertise including forensic taphonomy, human decomposition, clandestine gravesite detection and excavation, comparative osteology, and estimation of the postmortem interval.