Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46’s CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department.  Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing.  She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.

Sheryl the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a 501 c 3, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.