May 4, 2001

"Forensic Microscopy"
Glenn Schubert
Illinois State Police
Southern Illinois Forensic Centre
Carbondale, Illinois

Glenn will discuss the tools that the Illinois State Police Forensic Science Labs use to help law enforcement agencies solve crimes. Specifically he will describe how forensic scientists use microscopes to examine, identify, and compare hairs, fibers, fabric impressions, wood, building materials and particulate unknowns with the use of stereomicroscopes, polarized light microscopes, comparison microscopes, and infrared microscopes. He will present information on many of the crimes that he has helped solve through microscopic examinations.

Bio Sketch
Glenn received his BS degree in Biological Sciences from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in 1980. From 1980 to 1984 he worked in a private medical lab in St. Louis performing cytotoxic food allergy testing. At the same time he was working part-time as a Firefighter/Paramedic for the Madison, Illinois, Fire Department. He combined knowledge and skills from both of these jobs when he was hired in 1985 as a forensic scientist for the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, as it was known then. After training as a forensic microscopist at the Joliet Forensic Science Laboratory, he transferred to the Southern Illinois Forensic Science Centre at Carbondale in 1986, where he still works. He has Performed forensic microscopy exams on hundreds of items of evidences since then. In addition, he has received recognition for many of the cases that he has worked on. One case that Glenn worked on is now featured in the book entitled Deadly Deception by Alva Busch. Another case that Glenn worked on was featured in a television movie titled Precious Victims. Last year Glenn testified in Houston, Texas, in the trial of the "Railroad Killer," Angel Maturino Resendiz, about evidence from a double murder case in southern Illinois that he is accused of committing.

Glenn is an avid NASCAR fan. He and his wife, Sheila, were at the Daytona 500 this past February when the popular driver Dale Earnhardt was fatally injured in a crash on the last lap of the race.