Licensed Private Investigators providing full services in Civil, Criminal and Probate cases
with a specialized emphasis and Subject Matter Expertise in Death Investigation and Injury Causation
AFI-LLC Team Beers returns to 'Crime Time with Vito Colucci' 02/24/2013
Listen to Dean and Karen with Francie Koehler on PIs Declassified Radio (07/20/2012)
Listen to Dean and Karen with Vito Colucci on Crime Time Radio (03/25/2012)
with a specialized emphasis and Subject Matter Expertise in Death Investigation and Injury Causation
AFI-LLC Team Beers returns to 'Crime Time with Vito Colucci' 02/24/2013
Listen to Dean and Karen with Francie Koehler on PIs Declassified Radio (07/20/2012)
Listen to Dean and Karen with Vito Colucci on Crime Time Radio (03/25/2012)
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Review our most common expert death and injury causation services.
Basic Equivocal Death or Injury Causation Analysis
Standard Equivocal Death or Injury Causation Investigation Advanced Equivocal Death or Injury Causation Investigation Comprehensive Equivocal Death or Injury Causation Investigation Affiliated expert forensic consultants and related specialized services. The most common requests are for our flat fee services - Click Here for specific details. |
Review our most common non-expert general investigative services
Critical Case Analysis
Civil, Criminal & Probate Litigation Investigations Scene & Evidence Investigation and Documentation Individual Locate Investigations Background Records Checks and/or Investigations Assets & Liabilities Records Checks and/or Investigations Scene investigations are important - they are the beginning of every investigation. Read Karen's Part I and Dean's Part II on scene investigations and experiences. |
Suicide and traumatic events, fatal and non-fatal, affect everyone, and everyone can help. Please read this article by Karen concerning this tragedy and how you might help a loved one and save a life < Understanding Suicide and its Prevention > and her related follow-up blog article < Who Needs an Equivocal Death Case Review >
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Nationally Recognized Expert Consultants and Legal Investigators
Specializing in Equivocal Legal and Death Analysis and Investigations Comprehensive and Reliable Analysis and Investigations of Fatal and Non-Fatal Injuries and Incidents 
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We are Forensic Investigators and have working relationships with leading forensic experts, including a Forensic Pathologist and Forensic Toxicologist.
Medicolegal / Death Investigation can provide a contextual view of the empirical evidence in both death and non-death cases. We have found that the use of a full medicolegal / death investigation is under utilized - from the investigator to the forensic pathologist. At Associates in Forensic Investigations we specialize in the expert medicolegal consultation and legal investigation of cases involving persons with traumatic injuries or death, as well as cases involving serious criminal charges. Whether you facing serious criminal charges, have been victimized by a traumatic event, are a family member of a victim or decedent, or a law firm representing a victim or family - our agency has the experience and subject matter expertise to assist with civil, criminal and probate cases involving personal injury, negligence and death. As an expert component, full investigative services, or both. Our team and affiliated experts include Forensic Investigators, a Forensic Pathologist and a Forensic Toxicologist, with experts in related fields available as needed. Everything from document, report and photograph reviews to scene investigation, and autopsy reviews and both second and private autopsies. We are your unique private sector medicolegal investigation agency. Complex litigation requires an agency comprised of Professional Reliable Investigators Defining Excellence that take PRIDE in their work and we are that agency. Our agency is focused on superior and exceptional solid investigative practices. Our mission - our guarantee - is that all cases receive the highest level of skilled investigative attention to provide a work product that is part of the complete legal strategy. You need an investigative-legal team that is exceptionally trained, skilled and experienced. 'Quaero Indicium - Finding the Evidence' for you and we are that agency. Our skills, knowledge, education, training, and experience with investigative subject matter expertise is unparalleled. Details about these traits, pertinent to your cases, are available under the respective Principals' Bios tab |
What Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC (AFI-LLC) brings to the table:
Dean and Karen Beers of Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC, together have over 30 years of legal investigative experience and a combined official death investigation experience of over nine years at a busy and unique coroner/medical examiner’s office. They are also among the first to be licensed private investigators under Colorado's new and unique 'Voluntary Private Investigator Licensure Program'. What does this mean? It means we have chosen to add distinction to our professionalism by being vetted for our experience, character and references. Licensed private investigators hold themselves to a higher level of professionalism and accountability than their peers, clients and the general public.
Dean is the only Board Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) in northern Colorado. Dean and Karen are both Certified Criminal Defense Investigators, and are also certified in Medicolegal Death Investigations specializing in all Personal Injury, Negligence and Death investigations in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation. Their specialty and expertise is in the area of Equivocal Death Investigation – being the voice for those that can no longer speak for themselves.
Karen earned her Bachelor's in Social Work from Colorado State University (Magna Cum Laude). Her background, education and experience with victim advocacy and counseling are valuable assets in working with families and victims of traumatic events. Possessing strong interpersonal skills and ability to reach out to people, she brings a unique perspective to cases, particularly lifestyle matters and mitigation. Her death investigation training and experience, together with her social work and general investigative skills and experience, are an asset to the medicolegal and criminal defense investigative processes.
Dean has consulted extensively and nationally as an Expert, including in Private Investigations, Forensic Investigations and Pattern Injury Analysis. Karen's education and experience as an investigative tool, as well as victim advocacy and counseling, are valuable assets in case evaluation and investigation, and working with families and victims of traumatic events. AFI-LLC uses a multidisciplinary team approach, also working with a forensic pathologist and forensic toxicologist.
From Karen, which speaks of our agency..."Equivocal Death Investigations/Analysis. Sometimes the death of a loved one leaves behind many unanswered questions. Helping clients understand the investigative process and answer questions to help ease their minds are the main goals of a death analysis. Due to the prevalence of Equivocal Death Analysis, we now offer a flat-fee to further help families in their time of need. Helping clients with lingering issues surrounding a loved ones death is difficult yet necessary to assist in resolving issues that can sometimes take years. Hearing the words, "Thank you, you have helped me to understand." Whatever questions they may have had tucked inside their minds is very rewarding."
Dean is the only Board Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) in northern Colorado. Dean and Karen are both Certified Criminal Defense Investigators, and are also certified in Medicolegal Death Investigations specializing in all Personal Injury, Negligence and Death investigations in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation. Their specialty and expertise is in the area of Equivocal Death Investigation – being the voice for those that can no longer speak for themselves.
Karen earned her Bachelor's in Social Work from Colorado State University (Magna Cum Laude). Her background, education and experience with victim advocacy and counseling are valuable assets in working with families and victims of traumatic events. Possessing strong interpersonal skills and ability to reach out to people, she brings a unique perspective to cases, particularly lifestyle matters and mitigation. Her death investigation training and experience, together with her social work and general investigative skills and experience, are an asset to the medicolegal and criminal defense investigative processes.
Dean has consulted extensively and nationally as an Expert, including in Private Investigations, Forensic Investigations and Pattern Injury Analysis. Karen's education and experience as an investigative tool, as well as victim advocacy and counseling, are valuable assets in case evaluation and investigation, and working with families and victims of traumatic events. AFI-LLC uses a multidisciplinary team approach, also working with a forensic pathologist and forensic toxicologist.
From Karen, which speaks of our agency..."Equivocal Death Investigations/Analysis. Sometimes the death of a loved one leaves behind many unanswered questions. Helping clients understand the investigative process and answer questions to help ease their minds are the main goals of a death analysis. Due to the prevalence of Equivocal Death Analysis, we now offer a flat-fee to further help families in their time of need. Helping clients with lingering issues surrounding a loved ones death is difficult yet necessary to assist in resolving issues that can sometimes take years. Hearing the words, "Thank you, you have helped me to understand." Whatever questions they may have had tucked inside their minds is very rewarding."
We belong to the following professional associations and networks:
Professional Private Investigators Assoc of CO ~ Nat'l Assoc of Legal Investigators ~ Nat'l Council of Investigation and Security Services
Criminal Defense Investigation Training Council ~ World Assoc of Detectives ~ National Defender Investigator Association
National Assoc of Medical Examiners ~ International Assoc for Identification & Rocky Mountain Division
e also support these associations and colleagues with our membership:
Florida Association of Licensed Investigators and Texas Association of Licensed Investigators and California Association of Licensed Investigators
Professional Private Investigators Assoc of CO ~ Nat'l Assoc of Legal Investigators ~ Nat'l Council of Investigation and Security Services
Criminal Defense Investigation Training Council ~ World Assoc of Detectives ~ National Defender Investigator Association
National Assoc of Medical Examiners ~ International Assoc for Identification & Rocky Mountain Division
e also support these associations and colleagues with our membership:
Florida Association of Licensed Investigators and Texas Association of Licensed Investigators and California Association of Licensed Investigators
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Please look around and contact us any time to review your needs and how we can help you.
Prepare ~ Inquire ~ Analyze ~ Document ~ Report
by Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI
Listen to "Practical Investigation: A Map to Finding Facts" an interview with Dean on PI's Declassified
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Legal investigators are responsible
for providing factual evidence - as the fact finders, they are
the foundation for the attorneys they work with daily. We wrote the book on investigations...Attorney is responsible for forming and implementing the legal
strategy and presenting it to the judge or jury. The legal
investigator provides checks and balances to ensure that no
evidence is being forced upon a theory, and that no theory is
being forced upon the evidence. Practical Methods for Legal
Investigations: Concepts and Protocols in Civil and Criminal
Cases presents legal investigators with a step-by-step process
that reveals how to methodically find and report evidence in
every aspect of the investigative process.
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Affiliated Forensic Experts
 www.AutopsyReview.org
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Affiliated Police Practices Expert
 www.ShamshakPI.com
Thomas Shamshak, CCDI (Chief, ret)
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