In his over 30 year career, George Schiro has examined evidence in over 4000 cases. While most of these cases have been in Louisiana, he has also consulted on cases in 29 other states, for the United States Army and Air Force, and in New Zealand, Panama, and the United Kingdom. He has also testified as an expert witness in over 200 trials in 31 Louisiana parish courts, 11 Mississippi county courts, Pope County Arkansas, San Bernardino County California, Escambia and Lee Counties Florida, St. Louis County Missouri, Clark and Lyon Counties Nevada, Bernalillo County New Mexico, Bronx and Queens Counties New York, Shelby County Tennessee, Bexar and Harris Counties Texas, Cabell County West Virginia, Campbell County Wyoming, federal court (La. Middle, Tennessee Middle, and Nebraska Districts), U.S. court-martial (Luke Air Force Base), and two Louisiana city courts. He is available for case consultation in the following areas:
Crime Scene Investigation
Crime Scene Reconstruction
General Forensic Science
DNA Analysis
Serology
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Shooting Reconstruction
Shoeprint Identification
Hair Examination
Latent Print Development
Fracture Match Analysis
Some of the cases in which George has been involved include:
The West Memphis Three (Arkansas vs. Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.)
The 1991 Louisiana State Police investigation of the September 8, 1935 assassination of U. S. Senator Huey P. Long
Ray Krone and Carolyn Leming vs. County of Maricopa, et.al.
One set of south Louisiana serial killings (Derrick Todd Lee was eventually tried and convicted for two of the murders. Evidence of the other murders was also presented at the trials.)
State of Nevada v. Kirstin Blaise Lobato (featured on Discovery's Guilty or Innocent?, Al Jazeera America's The System and Oxygen's Snapped)
Louisiana v. Robyn Davis and Carol Saltzman (case featured on CBS' 48 Hours and Oxygen's Snapped)
The River Parishes serial killings (Daniel Blank eventually tried and convicted)
The initial investigation of Eugenie Boisfontaine's murder (featured on Discovery's Killing Fields)
State of Tennessee v. Jerome Barrett (the book, A Season of Darkness, is about this case)
State of Tennessee v. Robert Burdick (case featured on NBC's Dateline)
Louisiana v. C. Murray Henderson (the book, Weep for the Living, is about this case)
Contact information:
(337) 322-2724
E-mail: Gjschiro@cs.com