Mike King
Mike King is a National Law Enforcement Account Executive for ESRI, the Environmental Systems Research Institute where he works with America's largest police departments in applying GIS or geographic mapping to their law enforcement functions. Prior to working at ESRI, Mike was a Product Planning Manager and Senior Investigative Analyst
for Motorola, Inc., working on intuitive based investigative software
applications and consulting to law enforcement agencies worldwide in crime analysis, investigations and
criminal behavior.
Mike retired from full-time law enforcement in 2004 and has 28
years of service. At the time of his retirement, he was an Intelligence Supervisor for the Utah Criminal Intelligence
Center and oversees intelligence gathering and dissemination for northern
Utah. Prior to working for DPS, Mike was the Director of the
Utah criminal Tracking and Analysis Project and retired as a Lieutenant
from the Utah Attorney General's Office. He continues to serve as a
Reserve Police Officer and provides analytical support and consultation to
the
Ogden City Police Department.
Mike began his career in 1979 with the Pleasant View Police Department and
several months later with the Ogden City Police Department where he served in Patrol, Motors and the
Tactical Squad/SWAT Team. In 1987, he joined the
Weber County Attorney's Office as an Investigator and Chief of Staff.
While there, he served as the lead investigator in the Zion Society
organization, (a group of 150 individuals practicing bizarre religious
doctrine and sexually abusing children). As a result of that
investigation, 12 defendants were charged with major felony crimes. All the
defendants were convicted in what is now considered one of the largest, most
successfully prosecuted cases of organized cultic abuse in U.S. history.
In 1992, King joined the Utah
Attorney General's Office, and was assigned to conduct a statewide study
on Ritual Crime for the Utah State Legislature. While there, he
investigated hundreds of bizarre ritual or cult behavior crimes and worked
with local, state and federal law enforcement in determining future
protocols for the handling of ritualistic crimes.
He is the former Chief of Staff to Jan Graham who served as Utah Attorney
General from 1993-2001. He served in the Investigations
Division and as the co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for Utah
Law Enforcement. He also served a 3 year assignment to the FBI's
Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) National Advisory Board as the
co-chair.
He teaches Criminal Investigative Analysis for the
Utah Peace Officers Standards and Training academy and as an adjunct
professor in Criminal Justice at Weber State University and the Salt Lake Community
College. King is the recipient of the 2002 NAPO (National
Association of Police Organizations) "Top Cop" award and the 1989
National Police Officer of the Year award and various other awards for his
action related to cult investigations, organized criminal activity and
community resourcing.
Mike has a Master of Criminal Justice degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Criminal Justice and Communications.
Mike is the co-author of "Predators, Who Are They?" Prometheus Press, 2007 "Cold Case Methodology," LawTech
Publishing, 2006, "Profilers," Prometheus Press,
2006, "Who
Killed King Tut", Prometheus Press, 2006 and 2004, and "Analyzing
Criminal Behavior I and II", IQ Press, 2002-3. He also
co-authored "Victimology,
Predators Part I", IQ Press, 2002, "Ritual Crime in Utah", State of Utah,
1993 and "Basic Patrol Concepts", self published, 1984 and law enforcement
articles in many publications including the FBI Bulletin and The Journal of Forensic Nursing.
He is a featured speaker and trainer nationally and has consulted in major
criminal cases worldwide, including consultation for
APBNews.com,
MSNBC,
Court TV, FOX National News "On the Record" with Gretta Van Susteren,
Canadian Global Television, the
Michael Reagan Show and most recently for his co-lead role for the
Discovery Channel in the "Assassination
of King Tut" airing worldwide in 144 countries and 33 languages and
"History's Mystery's" on the History Channel.
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