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 sample 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
Previous work may have leaned toward 'cherry picking'. You may want to see 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 front passanger seat.
We were asked to discover if the person in the passenger's might not have been the intended.
Could the shooter see who was the passanger before the shots were fired?
Measuring the intensity of the hand held light source, then the intensity of the light bouncing off the tinted glass establishes the reflection percentage of the 95% tinted glass by source and sensor reading.
Then establishing that the internal level measured matches the 5% penetration predicted by manufacturer specs. This internal lighting was then simulated using an adjustable overhead light panel. Having the internal system established we then move to the outside lighting.
Optics Lab Results
Duplicating the intensity and direction of the sun at the time and place of the incident creates the systematic double. The results of this test has to address the sensitivty of the human eye.
So we assume the best of 'standard' capability. (0.1 lux)
Sourcing NOAA Sun data to get the light reference for the date, time, position and direction of the sun. Knowing the vehicle's orientation to the sun and position of the shooter from discovery, we can 'see' what the shooter saw.
The sun light reflected off the interior, coming back through the tint has to be greater than the level of the sun light reflecting off the outside of the tinted window, to be seen by the eye of the shooter.
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 to not be riding at all. He was just sitting on the bike with his head down and made no reaction to the cars coming. It was indicated that he was highly intoxcated and possibly incoherent.
If the first car was late in identifying the bike before the brake and swerve avoidance, the following car would experience the decreasing following distance and a shorter decision time. Increases the possiblilty that the second driver had too little time to react.
Second driver's View as the cars close.
Drivers View
Analysis using satellite and discovery scene documentation
Google Earth and street level photos showed accident markings, Allowing to reconstruct the scene without relying totally on law enforcement's photos of the scene.
Two-Car-Headon
The van, pushed backwards after catching the trucks right headlight midway of the van's grill. This moved 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 SlidesStatement Support Animation - Bar Fight
Bar Fight starts with
words yelled across room.
Push Back On Pool Table
Girl Jumps On Back
Foot balances on door sill,
all loose balance
Three Fall To Patio
Woman Kicks Heads
Bar Fight
Statement Support Animation - Knife Fight
Knock but no answer, First uses pocket knife to open door. Second man comes to door with large knife. First backs off and second shuts door.
Walks to counter while putting away his knife. First looks up just in time to get cut by third man.
First pulls knife for Defense
First blocks then stabs Man in Abdomen
Woman Checks Bleeding
End fight women and third leave for Hospital
Knife FightHow could the 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-forcesForces along the route move the passengers
Road hole pulls 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-Display1987 BTS Invents the first three stage compensator
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.
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.
