Ken Goddard

Ken Goddard is a police and wildlife forensic investigator who transitioned from his early law enforcement career as a young criminalist, deputy sheriff, and homicide crime scene interrogator digging up victims in shallow graves in the Mohave desert and rebuilding the events that led to their often violent death to guiding a small police crime laboratory in southern California, and eventually to developing and guiding the first (and sadly, still only) full service forensic laboratory in southern California.As the creator and director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, Goddard's wildlife forensics experts in veterinarian pathology, genetics, criminalistics, analytical chemistry, as well as morphology (the recognition of hides, hair, fur, feathers, teeth, skulls, and bones back to their species source) provide forensic expert knowledge and evidence identification services to US Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agents and Wildlife Inspectors at ports of entry.

Goddard's wildlife forensics lab is the official crime lab for the 182+ CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) signatory countries, as well as the Wildlife Working Group of Interpol.

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