Dean L. Jackson

Deputy Executive Director
Uncovered Murder of Michael Cochran

Dean has more than 30 years of experience working in both the non-profit world and Law Enforcement. He has an extensive list of credentials and thousands of hours of experience in Cold Case Homicide Investigation, Critical Incident Stress Management, Death Notification and Autopsies. He has debriefed first responders after numerous critical incidents including fatal accidents, suicides, officer-involved shootings, homicides, sexual assaults, equivocal deaths, and officer deaths. He has personally performed hundreds of Death Notifications.
   
Dean is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Cold Case Foundation, a member of the Utah Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team, and accredited instructor for the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Dean is also a certified mediator with the State of Utah. He is a violent crime specialist and he continues to provide training for law enforcement agencies on homicide, missing persons, unidentified bodies and sexual assault cold cases investigations, stress management and death notifications.

Dean is a frequent guest lecturer at universities, law enforcement and fire agencies, victim assistant units, state Peace Officer Standards Training (POST). He provides training for the federally mandated Operation Lady Justice Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Dean is the author of: Death Notifications, Delivering an Offensive Message in the least Offensive Manner (2013).

He took part in the 2019 NETFLIX five-part docuseries. The Confession Killer an American true crime documentary. The plot revolves around the 1983 case of Henry Lee Lucas who confessed to over 200 murders in the United States. Years after his admissions, they turned out to be lies.​

Guest Speaker Availability Book Jackson Now