Thomas C. McAndrew

Thomas C. McAndrew is a member of the Global Security Team at Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), where he serves as an Executive Security Specialist. BD is a multinational medical technology company that is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

He is the former Chief of Investigations for Innovative Forensic Investigations, where he worked with law enforcement agencies throughout the United States in an effort to resolve the most difficult cases using Investigative Genetic Genealogy.

He was formerly a Homicide Detective with the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and also served with the Pennsylvania State Police for 26 years. During his career with the Pennsylvania State Police, he was a member of the Criminal Investigation Assessment Unit, a unit that specializes in behavioral analysis of violent crimes and is designed to oversee and help investigate homicides and suspicious missing person cases. Throughout his career he has almost 3 decades of homicide investigation experience.

He has assisted with numerous cold case investigations that were successfully resolved, and helped start an initiative in Pennsylvania to locate unidentified decedents in efforts to apply contemporary investigative standards. He served on a National Institute of Justice Cold Case Working Group, comprised of 35 subject matter experts. The efforts of this group led to a national publication released in 2019, that outlines the national best practices for implementing and sustaining a cold case unit.

McAndrew is President of the Pennsylvania Homicide Investigators Association, is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the International Homicide Investigator’s Association, the Middle Atlantic Cold Case Homicide Investigators Association, and is on the Board of Directors of the Vidocq Society, an internationally recognized group of experts who provide pro bono services to homicide investigations world-wide. McAndrew has been recognized for his efforts in numerous homicide investigations including having been named Pennsylvania’s Homicide Investigator of the Year.

He has lectured on various aspects of homicide and death investigation at venues across the United States. He received his Master’s Degree (Investigative Forensics) and Bachelor’s Degree (Criminal Justice) from Desales University.