Sergeant Tony Monheim
Tony
Monheim retired from the Miami-Dade Police Department in 2004, after a
distinguished, 30 year career. He was assigned to the Homicide Bureau as
a squad supervisor during the final 12 years of his tenure. Prior to
that, he spent 16 years in the Robbery Bureau as both an investigator
and a supervisor. He has been personally responsible for scores of
Police Officer Involved Shooting investigations and hundreds of Homicide
/ Death investigations.
In 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft presented Tony with the United
States Department of Justice’s, Outstanding Contributions in Law
Enforcement Award. This award was conferred in recognition of an intensive four-year
investigation that targeted two warring drug gangs who were responsible
for over 40 murders. At the conclusion of the investigation, 22
defendants were indicted federally. Included in the indictments were 31
previously unsolved murders. All defendants were found guilty during an
11 week jury trial and received lengthy Federal prison terms, ranging
from 30 years to life.
Tony began teaching criminal investigation courses in 1985. He has
taught Homicide, Robbery, and Police Officer Involved Shooting seminars
for the International Association of Chief’s of Police (IACP), the
Southeast Florida Institute of Criminal Justice, the Miami-Dade Police
Department’s training bureau, DEA, ATF, FDLE (Florida Department of Law
Enforcement), and the Southern Police Institute (SPI). He has also been
featured on several training tapes produced by the Law Enforcement
Training Network (LETN) and has served as a guest lecturer at the
prestigious University of Miami Law School. Several of his cases have
been presented on America’s Most Wanted, Inside Edition, Court TV, and
the Discovery Channel.
Tony holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from St. Thomas of
Villanova University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Western Illinois
University, where he was a standout Rugby player. He has been afforded expert witness status in both Federal
and State (Florida) court regarding homicide investigative procedures.
In 2006, Tony returned to the Miami-Dade Homicide Bureau and was assigned to the Cold Case Squad as a consultant hired to evaluate the over two-thousand unsolved murders in the Bureau's archives.
Chief Russell Fischer
Chief Russell Fischer has been employed by the
Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) for 32 years.
He joined the MDPD in 1975 and was promoted through all the civil
service ranks presently holding the 
rank of Division
Chief.
He has diverse experience in police management, investigations
and operations to include command assignments in the Robbery Bureau,
Northwest District and City of Miami Lakes as well as having served as
the Police Captain of the Professional Compliance Bureau, Narcotics
Bureau and Economic Crimes Bureau.
He
holds a Master of Science Degree in Management and a Master of Public
Administration Degree from the
Chief Fischer teaches Conducting Police Officer Involved Shooting Investigations for HomicideTraining.com.