Getting Away with Murder:

The Challenges of Staged Crime Scenes

(A Focus on Intimate Partner Homicides)

October 24-28, 2022

Space is limited

Alliance CEO Gael Strack created the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention to focus on the needs of survivors and accountability for offenders. Her vision then led to a focus on staged crime scene cases. Dateline’s story tonight will be a tribute to the amazing team in Denver, to Dr Bill Smock, and to the relentless determination of Gael Strack who refused to let victims die in vain and stranglers get away with murder. Gael would not forget the families of those impacted by murders made to look like suicides. And now the Alliance has teams to help focus on staged crime scenes where families are robbed of their loved ones without a pathway to justice and accountability. While the Institute is determined to prevent homicides, we are equally determined to hold killers accountable.

Stacy Feldman Was Murdered by her Husband Hours After Confronting Him About a Tinder Affair

Stacy's story will be aired

TONIGHT, 9-11pm

on DATELINE NBC

A producer from Dateline contacted Stacy's sister Susan Altman, following the arrest in 2018. Susan shared the story with Dateline to bring awareness to Domestic Violence in the hope that someone else who may be in a similar situation will see the show and reach out for help.

One of the great passions of our work in the last few years has been working on staged crime scene cases where women are murdered and then it is made to look like a suicide or accident. Law enforcement and even medical examiners get fooled and murderers escape justice. Our very first case was the death of Stacy Feldman in Denver, Colorado. She died in 2015 and the Denver Medical Examiner's Office ruled her cause of death was "Undetermined." Making it almost impossible to prosecute the prime suspect, her husband, Robert Feldman.

The family asked us to to review the case a number of years ago, but we needed the Denver Police Department to ask us for help. Then-detective Randy Dennison got permission to reach out to our team at the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention to review the case. After we reviewed autopsy reports and photos and all available information about the history of the relationship, we provided the opinion that Stacy Feldman was murdered by either strangulation or suffocation. She did not die by accident. The Denver Police Department finished their investigation and submitted the case for prosecution. The Denver DA filed murder charges against Robert Feldman based on our opinion. The case has taken years to move through the criminal justice system.

Robert Feldman was convicted of first-degree murder and immediately sentenced to life without possibility of parole. He has been out of custody for seven years spending his wife's life insurance proceeds on his defense and his own living expenses. He was remanded to custody and will never experience freedom again. Special congratulations to Denver District Attorneys Maggie Conboy J.D. and Laura Mullin J.D.

This course will focus on 4 real life "staged crime scene" cases and attendees will receive exclusive details on each case. Throughout this training, our experts will share the 10 factors every professional NEEDS TO KNOW when handling these types of cases. Join us as we continue to advocate for justice for those robbed of hope and life by rage-filled, misogynistic men.

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Upcoming Trainings

October 5 & 6 – 2 Day Strangulation Prevention, LAPD, Los Angeles, CA

October 6 – Virtual 1 Day Strangulation Prevention, Battle Creek, MI

October 13 & 14 – 2 Day Strangulation Prevention, Stark County, OH

October 13 & 14– 2-Day In-Person Strangulation Prevention, Dekalb County, GA

October 19–1 Day In-Person Strangulation Prevention, Dover, DE

November 29& 30–2 Day In-Person Strangulation Prevention, Reno, NV

December 6 & 7–2 Day Virtual Strangulation Prevention, Billings, MT

December 12 - 15–Advanced Course on Strangulation Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico SOLD OUT