Christine Burke is a retired police detective and sergeant with expertise in forensic genetic genealogy (FGG), investigative genetic genealogy (IGG), law enforcement policy, procedure, and culture. She provides consulting, training, case review, and expert witness services to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and criminal justice professionals.
Christine Burke is a retired police detective and sergeant whose career spans law-enforcement operations and forensic genetic genealogy. She combines operational investigative experience with specialized expertise in genetic genealogy methodology and its application to criminal investigations and unidentified human remains cases.
Christine has specialized expertise in FGG and IGG, including SNP DNA analysis, database comparison, genealogy research, lead development, documentation, and legal defensibility. Her approach emphasizes that a genetic genealogy lead is an investigative lead that the agency must independently corroborate through traditional investigation and confirmatory testing.
As a retired police detective and sergeant, Christine brings firsthand understanding of law-enforcement policy, procedure, and culture to her FGG/IGG work. This operational perspective shapes her consulting, training, and capability development work, which is designed for real agency use rather than theory.
Christine provides specialized training in FGG and IGG for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, crime laboratories, and criminal justice professionals. She is named as the instructor for an agency training course listed by the Northern Illinois Training Advisory Board (NITAB), “Genetic Genealogy for Law Enforcement.” NITAB course listing (PDF).
Christine writes about forensic genetic genealogy, investigative genetic genealogy, and the operational and legal realities of FGG for law enforcement. Read articles.
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