HoTXSinC
July 8, 2018 @ Cafe Express
Dave Ciambrone
on
Off-the-Shelf Poisons for Writers
Dr. David Ciambrone is a retired aerospace and defense company executive, scientist, professor of engineering, and a forensics consultant and is now a best selling, award winning author living in Georgetown, Texas with his wife Kathy. He has published twenty-one (21) books, four (4) non-fiction, two (2) textbooks for a California university, and fifteen (15) mysteries and has new mysteries in work.
Dave has been a speaker at writers groups, schools, colleges, writer’s conferences and business/scientific conferences internationally.
Dr. Ciambrone also wrote three newspaper columns and wrote a column for a business journal.
Dave has been VP of the Sisters in Crime Orange County, California chapter and President and treasurer of HOTSINC. He was also president of the San Gabriel Writer’s League and was on the Board of Directors of the Writer’s league of Texas. He is a member of MWA and the International Thriller Writers.
Dr. Ciambrone worked with a police agency and was a consultant to police/sheriffs and coroners, including the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office.
Dave is a Fellow of the International Oceanographic Foundation. He has a Bronze Trowel Award from the Archaeological Institute of America. He is also a member of the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. The Chinese Government appointed him a Dragon Master (龍重要資料).
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Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2:15 p.m. We meet at Café Express at 3418 N. Lamar.
Sisters in Crime is an international organization of women and men whose mission is to promote the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. Speakers include published mystery authors and technical experts who help writers craft better mysteries and readers enjoy what they read. Meetings are free and open to all. For more information, check out the Sisters in Crime website at https://sinc-heartoftexas.com and our newsletter/blog, HOTSHOTS!, at https://sinc-heartoftexas.com/posts/
For information contact Joyce Arquette, Publicity (512) 266-6543
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HoTXSinC
June 10, 2018 @ Cafe Express
ELIZABETH BRYANT
TRAVIS COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE K9 UNIT
on
SEARCH AND RESCUE
and
HOW DOGS WORK
Elizabeth Bryant, K9 Unit Leader at Travis County Search and Rescue, will present a general overview of Search and Rescue at the June 10 meeting of Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter . She will also share specific information about how dogs work.
Elizabeth Bryant is the K9 Unit Leader at Travis County Search and Rescue, a nonprofit group of volunteers who work with law enforcement to find lost and missing persons in wilderness areas. Before joining TCSAR in 2013, she was a professional dog trainer. Over the years she has trained service dogs, taught pet obedience and dog sports classes, and provided consults for behavioral problems. At TCSAR, she became the first team Field Training Officer, trained new Ground Unit members in basic SAR skills, and developed the K9 Unit and Search Management Unit Task Books. She also worked both live find and human remains detection dogs. She has certifications with both the National Association of Search and Rescue and the International Police Work Dog Association.
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HoTXSinC
May 20, 2018 @ Cafe Express
ED MARTIN
on
FRAUD INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES
and
BREAKING THE MADALYN MURRAY O’HAIR
KIDNAPPING/MURDER CASE
Ed Martin, our Sisters in Crime speaker on May 20, is a former U.S. Treasury agent and now a private investigator at Sage Investigations. In 1975 while working for the Treasury Department, he and his family moved to Austin where he became a senior agent and lead agent in the investigation and prosecution of income tax evasion and fraud investigations. He resigned from the US Treasury in 1984 and became a Supervising Examiner for the Texas State Securities Board in Austin. He became adept in broader definitions of fraud: Ponzi schemes, oil and gas fraud, and securities fraud.
Ed returned in 1991 to the IRS Criminal Investigation Division as a Special Agent to investigate fraud and money laundering cases. He was the lead agent and instrumental in solving the 5-year old mystery of what happened to Madalyn Murray O’Hair and her two adult children. After the trial of one of the criminals convicted in the O’Hair case, the Austin Chronicle stated: “If not for the methodical investigation of Special Agent Ed Martin and the FBI they (Gary Karr and David Waters) would have gotten away with murder.”
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Cafe Express
3418 N. Lamar, Austin 78705, 512 452-9888
Same time ~ 3rd Sunday in May, 2:15 pm
Parking behind restaurant! Great menu!
http://www.cafe-express.com/locations/austin
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Meetings are free and open to the public.
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HoTXSinC’s dues remain the same ~ $20 for the year.
For more about how to join or renew membership go to
https://sinc-heartoftexas.com/joinrenew/
(HoTXSinC members must also join
the national Sisters in Crime organization.)
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Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter meets
the 2nd Sunday of the month–
except in May, when we meet the 3rd Sunday—
at 2:15 p.m. at Cafe Express,
3418 N. Lamar, Austin 78705, 512 452-9888
For information about the Heart of Texas Chapter
contact Joyce Arquette, Publicity, (512) 266-6543
Check out our blog/newsletter at https://sinc-heartoftexas.com/posts/
We are writers and readers, men and women, who share an interest in crime fiction. Current members live throughout Central Texas–from Waco on the north to New Braunfels on the south–but our territory has no borders: No matter where you live, you’re welcome here.
