Join Paul Zambella as he discusses some of the most infamous cases in which he was involved as a forensic scientist at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab. Cases include the double murder of a brother and sister at the hands of two teenage boys; the vicious attacks on three children by a friend of the family; the fatal stabbing of a young girl by her boyfriend; the fatal stabbing of an elderly woman by a boy who lived in the neighborhood; the sexual assault of a young woman who was in the first year of her college education; the revenge killing of a man as he slept in his motel room. 

Focus of the program is on the forensic evidence and how it provided information which was instrumental in assisting prosecutors to secure the conviction of each suspect.

*Due to the nature of the subject matter, this presentation is recommended for people of high school age and older.*

Paul Zambella was employed as a Forensic Scientist at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory for 36 years. His functions in the laboratory included crime scene investigator, criminalist, drug analyst, serologist and toxicologist. He participated in more than 500 crime scene investigations, examined thousands of physical evidence items and testified in more than 350 criminal trials. Paul has taught courses in Forensic Science at Northeastern University, Salem State University and Hesser College. He has also lectured at Suffolk University and to various law enforcement institutions including the Massachusetts State Police Academy, the Northeast Regional Police Institute and the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association (MDAA).