Mr. Bohanan is an international award-winning patented inventor, researcher, lecturer, and writer, a Certified Latent Print Examiner (one of 860 in the world, and a certified police instructor with 55 years in the practical study and application of forensics in thousands of violent crime scenes. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from East Tennessee University with further studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Mr. Bohanan created the first Internet Crime Against Children (ICAC) task force in Tennessee in 1998 and worked in an online undercover capacity until he retired in May 2001 as a Police Specialist III, former AFIS Manager, and Senior Forensic Examiner with the Knoxville Police Department (26 years).

Mr. Bohanan twice received the Knoxville Police Officer of the Year award. He was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in Atlanta, sponsored by the Inventors of America, with two distinguished awards plus a doctorate in science and technology for pioneering research involving children’s fingerprints. He has responded to many major disasters, including the Columbia Space Disaster, the World Trade Center, and Hurricane Katrina. He has assisted in eight airline crashes to help identify human remains. He is currently researching to locate lost graves and determine the gender of the long-dead in 20 seconds or less.

For more information on TSK and its meetings, please email the secretary, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call him at 865-679-9854.

Arthur M. Bohanan’s books — including a historical fiction series about

Henry Bohanan, his great, great, great grandfather,

a veteran of the American Revolution — are available from Amazon or his Facebook page.