Knight Hawk Investigations

Bureau of Technical Services Knight Hawk Investigations Tactical Surveillance Insertion Team

Multi-Resource Capabilities

Optics Lab Trace Lab Documents Analysis Fingerprints Metadata Lab Electronics A/V Pix Enhance

Since 1990 we have stood as the most comprehensive Investigative agency in the Minnesota - Wisconsin area.

Home base is Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,

Knight Hawk Investigations
handles all common services for which a Professional investigator is known in both criminal and civil arenas.

Bureau of Technical Services division
Is a catalyst opening the investigative door to the exact sciences.
Our lab is equipped for forensic scientific investigation and evidence processing.
(See videos and documents below).

Audio / Video / Graphic enhancement and analysis
Uncovering the intelligence under the noise

Technical surveillance countermeasures (debugging)
Home office vehicle Countersurveillance

Environmental testing: atmospheric , toxic chemicals
Drug labs, radiation, EMF, Sound level, lighting
Ground Penitrating Radar, metal detectors, sonar, radar

Accident reconstruction and animation
Working the scene and or discovery to support court testimony

Custom made equipment to enable 'impossible' evidence gathering
"Off the shelf" equipment is for the 90% of your cases. The other 10% has greater needs

Scientific reconstruction and testing
To discover if the tesimony matches plausable reality

Forensic metadata extraction from digital platforms
Recovering evidence from mobile devices, desktops, cameras, black boxes, etc

Peer review of the work done by others including law enforcement technicians
The other side might be 'cherry picking', you want all the information

All and more in a number of scientific fields:
Electronics and mechanical engineering, fluid dynamics, physics, criminalistics, crime scene review

With the number of variables we have in house, it is left only to the imagination for the best way to build your case.

LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN AWAY WITH US

Optics Lab

More than one person in the truck suggests any one could have been in the passanger front.

We were asked to discover if the person in the passenger's might not have been the intended. So, could the shooter see who was the passanger before the shots were fired?

Establish reflection percentage of the 95% tinted glass by source and sensor reading.

Establishing the internal level measured matches the 5 % manufacturer specs. The internal lighting was simulated using an adjustable light panel overhead.

tint-report

Optics Lab Results

Orientation matching sun's direction and intensity sets the scene. Monitoring the discovered intensity creates the systematic double of the incident. Eyes can get an average result but different people have different capabiltes. So the math has to be done.

NOAA Sourcing Sun data to get the light reference for the date , tme and direction of the sun.

The light reflected off the interior comes back through the tint and has to be greater than the threshold level of the average sensitivity.

Tint Graphic

Incident ReEnactment and Animation

Did the driver in the 2nd car have time to see the bicyclist and avoid the collision.

Overview

The bike rider was reported not riding at all. Just sitting on the bike with his head down and made no reaction to the cars coming.

Closeup

If the first car was late in identifying the bike and swerve. the following car decreasing the distance during that decision time increases the possiblilty that th second drive could have too little time to react.

Second driver's View as the cars close.

Drivers View

Analysis using satellite & ground pictures

7 months later. Google Earth showed tracks that were still seen from the satellite . Allowing less reliance on the photos.

Two-Car-Headon

The van pushed backwards. Catching the trucks right headlight past right midway of the van's grill. This pushed both to the truck's left into grass.

Notice the brooms next to the pile. The scene was cleaned before the scene documentation was done. no date time stamp.

Van pushed back to a crab slide until tires grabbed rolling across.

Head On Slides

Statement Support Animation - Bar Fight

Bar Fight

Push Back On Pool Table

Girl Jumps On Back

On Step Down

Three Fall To Patio

Woman Kicks Heads

Bar Fight

Statement Support Animation - Knife Fight

Man meets Knife at Door

At Counter Gets Cut

Pulls Knife for Defense

Stabs Man in Abdomen

Woman Checks Bleeding

To leave for Hospital

Knife Fight

How Did Driver end up in the back right seat

Front right wheel pulls

Over reacts steering left

Rear left off road

Flung toward tree

Rear spins around

Hits tree #2 still spinning

Both Seatbacks Broken

Passenger-forces

Forces along the route move the passengers

Off the road

Up on grass

Side swipe tree

Right front into tree

Spin off

Backing into tree

Last spin up to the road

Trail-Display

1987 BTS Invents the first three stage compensator

Test-Results

Print Developing

Iodine, Ninhydrin, Cyano and powder

Case File Analysis

Recoil Reduction Obtained From "Dynacomp" Design

Dynacomp Lab Test

First and Second Page Document analysis

1st tells of who and why
2nd tells what they didn't want us to know

Crime-Scene

Training and Testing

Discovery shows key points in the timeline which we built in to the test.

Pedestrian-Animation

The physics of the situation left too many questions, not if it could be done, rather does the sequence end with the same results.

Five test runs were performed with a paint ball hanging from the rack at the correct height to hit the same place on the windshield where the victim head hit. Landing in the same place,on the road sliding the same distance

The victim in our test was built to the same size and weight and hit the car in precisely the same place and the same speed.

Pedestrian Reeactment

Even with situations that seem obvious, sometimes the results could be surprising . A simple test of the footpounds could find if gravity works with the movement and is able to fall off the table when an accidental firing happens.

Rifle-Recoil

An injury from a jammed rototiller might pop up and drag the operator into the machine. How much force would that take? At what angle would it fall forward.

Rototiller Flip

Practically Murder

Proving Camera Location

Accuser reports to have found a camera hidden at one location but the angle on the recording proves that wrong.

Camera Location

Timing Coincidence

Active elements documented by the clock, come together from different places to show who was a witness. Proving one denier as holding back or that another may not have had time to get there.

Timing-coincidence

Wristcam
In 1994 the first video camera in a wristwatch invented by Bureau Of Technical Services. Later there were cameras appearing in pagers, ball caps,and glasses. But no one else figured out how we did the watch.

Wristcam Video

Optics Lab

More than one person in the truck suggests any one could have been in the passanger front.

We were asked to discover if the person in the passenger's might not have been the intended. So, could the shooter see who was the passanger before the shots were fired?

Establish reflection percentage of the 95% tinted glass by source and sensor reading.

Establishing the internal level measured matches the 5 % manufacturer specs. The internal lighting was simulated using an adjustable light panel overhead.

Optics Lab Results

Orientation matching sun's direction and intensity sets the scene. Monitoring the discovered intensity creates the systematic double of the incident. Eyes can get an average result but different people have different capabiltes. So the math has to be done.

NOAA Sourcing Sun data to get the light reference for the date , tme and direction of the sun.

The light reflected off the interior comes back through the tint and has to be greater than the threshold level of the average sensitivity.

Incident ReEnactment and Animation

Did the driver in the 2nd car have time to see the bicyclist and avoid the collision.

The bike rider was reported not riding at all. Just sitting on the bike with his head down and made no reaction to the cars coming.

If the first car was late in identifying the bike and swerve. the following car decreasing the distance during that decision time increases the possiblilty that th second drive could have too little time to react.

Second driver's View as the cars close.

Analysis using satellite & ground pictures

7 months later. Google Earth showed tracks that were still seen from the satellite . Allowing less reliance on the photos.

The van pushed backwards. Catching the trucks right headlight past right midway of the van's grill. This pushed both to the truck's left into grass.

Notice the brooms next to the pile. The scene was cleaned before the scene documentation was done. no date time stamp.

Van pushed back to a crab slide until tires grabbed rolling across.

Statement Support Animation - Bar Fight

Bar Fight

Push Back On Pool Table

Girl Jumps On Back

On Step Down

Three Fall To Patio

Woman Kicks Heads

Statement Support Animation - Knife Fight

Man meets Knife at Door

At Counter Gets Cut

Pulls Knife for Defense

Stabs Man in Abdomen

Woman Checks Bleeding

To leave for Hospital

How Did Driver end up in the back right seat

Front right wheel pulls

Over reacts steering left

Rear left off road

Flung toward tree

Rear spins around

Hits tree #2 still spinning

Both Seatbacks Broken

Forces along the route move the passengers

Off the road

Up on grass

Side swipe tree

Right front into tree

Spin off

Backing into tree

Last spin up to the road

1987 BTS Invents the first three stage compensator

Print Developing

Iodine, Ninhydrin, Cyano and powder

Recoil Reduction Obtained From "Dynacomp" Design

First and Second Page Document analysis

1st tells of who and why 2nd tells what they didn't want us to know

Training and Testing

Discovery shows key points in the timeline which we built in to the test.

The physics of the situation left too many questions, not if it could be done, rather does the sequence end with the same results.

Five test runs were performed with a paint ball hanging from the rack at the correct height to hit the same place on the windshield where the victim head hit. Landing in the same place,on the road sliding the same distance

The victim in our test was built to the same size and weight and hit the car in precisely the same place and the same speed.

Even with situations that seem obvious, sometimes the results could be surprising . A simple test of the footpounds could find if gravity works with the movement and is able to fall off the table when an accidental firing happens.

An injury from a jammed rototiller might pop up and drag the operator into the machine. How much force would that take? At what angle would it fall forward.

Proving Camera Location

Accuser reports to have found a camera hidden at one location but the angle on the recording proves that wrong.

Timing Coincidence

Active elements documented by the clock, come together from different places to show who was a witness. Proving one denier as holding back or that another may not have had time to get there.

Wristcam In 1994 the first video camera in a wristwatch invented by Bureau Of Technical Services. Later there were cameras appearing in pagers, ball caps,and glasses. But no one else figured out how we did the watch.

1st tells of who and why
2nd tells what they didn't want us to know

Wristcam
In 1994 the first video camera in a wristwatch invented by Bureau Of Technical Services. Later there were cameras appearing in pagers, ball caps,and glasses. But no one else figured out how we did the watch.