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JUNE 9th-10th, 2026
Day 1
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:15 AM – 4:00 PM
Full-day Session: This session shows how to apply OSINT techniques to day-to-day threat assessment work. We’ll start with a practical refresher on current best practices, tools, and workflows—condensed from our two-day course—then demonstrate how to use those methods to track and analyze individuals and groups in threat assessments. Training is live and demonstration-based (no “death by PowerPoint”), and participants receive 1,000+ pages of digital guides/templates plus access to online tools, scripts, and a custom OSINT virtual machine.
Speaker: Jason Edison with IntelTechniques
Day 2
8:00 AM – 8:05 AM
Welcome, Housekeeping
8:05 AM – 10:00 AM
Session 2: Canfield Mountain Active Shooter Incident
Speakers: Det. Derrick Hollenbeck and Lt. Erik Hedlund, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office
Description: On June 29th, 2025, an active shooter started a fire near the Canfield Mountain Trailhead in Kootenai County, Idaho. Without warning, the attacker opened fire on responding firefighters, killing two and seriously injuring another. This presentation will outline the response by law enforcement to this complex event, as well as the investigation into the attacker during the event and in the aftermath. We will discuss the tactical challenges presented to responders and what was learned about the attacker and his possible motives by investigators.
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Session 3: SLOW MOTION HOMICIDE: Stalking Case Study
Speaker: Anna Nasset, Owner of A.Nasset Consulting & Training and board member of End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI)
Description: Anna Nasset will present her own experience as a victim of stalking for the last seventeen years. From the moment Anna first reported the behavior and actions of a stranger who was stalking her, to sentencing 8 years later; law enforcement, advocates, judges, prosecuting attorneys, and more have worked together as a MDT and alongside her every step of the way, from across the country and within multiple states. This resulted in conviction of felony aggravated stalking and felony cyber stalking in 2019, where the offender was sentenced to the maximum of 10 years in prison, at the time the longest sentence in our nation’s history for the crime of stalking.
In this presentation, Anna will not only share her own story, but also the debilitating effects that stalking had on every aspect of her life and how it changed her forever. She will focus on the effects stalking can have on a workplace, not only safety of the company, but how it can be a targeted place for the stalker, and how victims are impacted while working. Additionally, she will highlight the intersection that stalking has not only in domestic and sexual violence, but also in a multitude of other crimes.
Anna highlights the positive and lifesaving work of law enforcement throughout her case study and gives concrete examples for working with victims of stalking or other crimes. She deep dives into the potential harm and lethality that can happen for stalking victims when there is a mental health diagnosis of the perpetrator. Lastly, she educates on the importance of victim-centered involvement for all victims of stalking and shares the success and outcome of these practices in her case and life.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lunch
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Session 4: Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reason – The Rise of Social Acceptance of Altruistic Targeted Violence
Speakers: SA Morgan Cebula, Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, and Lt. Col. Heather Morris, Ph.D., CTM, Director of Behavioral Sciences, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations Behavioral Science Directorate
Description: Targeted violence occurs across contexts for a variety of motivations. However, it is rarely seen as an “altruistic” act solely to bring attention to perceived societal injustices. “Altruistic” Targeted Violence is committed at the expense of the attacker’s own life or personal freedom, even if the attacker was not personally impacted by the cause. Recent attacks have demonstrated the ability for these acts to spread virally on social media; generate idolization and support of attackers as martyrs or vigilantes for their cause; and act as inspiration for future attacks. This leaves the threat assessment and law enforcement community in the aftermath working to anticipate the potential contagion and catalyst effects of these attacks. This presentation will discuss recent acts of “altruistic” targeted violence, their impact on the perception of social justice and their future potential to motivate and inspire their causes within the US and around the world. Additionally, the hope of this presentation is to inspire further research into this rising phenomenon.
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Session 5: The Church of Columbine: Beyond Identification
Speakers: Mariya Dvoskina, PsyD, CTM, Nicoletti-Flater Associates
Description: This presentation examines the evolution of Identification as a critical warning behavior in targeted violence. Building on established threat assessment literature, we reframe identification as an internalized self-concept. Drawing on preliminary data analyses and qualitative case material, the presentation introduces a three-facet framework of mirroring, twinship, and idealization, grounded in self-psychology to explain how individuals come to affiliate with past attackers at a psychological and symbolic level. The role of online environments in reinforcing these identity processes is explored, along with observable leakage behaviors associated with each facet. Clinical, investigative, and threat management implications are discussed, with an emphasis on early recognition, monitoring identity evolution over time, and developing intervention strategies that disrupt violent identity formation and promote alternative, non-violent identities.