About
Dr. Rick Snow is an expert in the field of Forensic Anthropology. He specializes in assisting district attorneys, criminal defense attorneys, law enforcement agencies, medical examiners, and coroners in locating, recovering, analyzing, and identifying human remains.
From 2002-2009 Dr. Snow worked for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as the Forensic Anthropologist for the State of Georgia at Large. During this time he worked well over 300 forensic anthropology cases for more than 80 law enforcement agencies, coroners, and medical examiners in Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama. Of these cases, nearly 100 were homicides. He also conducted more than 60 recoveries of human remains including the excavation of eight wells.
Dr. Snow consults with district attorneys and criminal defense attorneys to determine time since death, manner of death, skeletal trauma, and identification of human remains. He is highly trained in the analysis of skeletal, decomposed, mummified, burned, cremated, incomplete, fragmentary, dismembered, and commingled remains.
Dr. Snow has testified as an expert witness in forensic anthropology in both Superior and Federal Court. His expert testimony has been critical to the outcome of several high profile criminal cases. A personable witness that is able to explain difficult scientific data in a clear and concise manner, Dr. Snow is as comfortable in the courtroom as he is in the field or the lab.
In 2005 he was sent to Phuket, Thailand to serve as the Coordinator of the Thailand Tsunami Victim Identification Information Management Center. Also in 2005 he worked as a forensic anthropologist for the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) following Hurricane Katrina.
In 2002 he served as a forensic anthropologist at the Tri-State Crematory incident and was instrumental in the location, recovery, and identification of 334 bodies that were not cremated.
In 2001 he served eight months in Bosnia working mass graves and analyzing the remains for the International Commission on Missing Persons. In 1999 he served as a forensic anthropologist in Kosovo as an agent of the United Nations where he excavated mass graves and analyzed the remains for evidence of trauma.
He was a Patrolman II for the Dekalb County (GA) Police Department and is POST certified in forensic anthropology.