Biography
Dr. Casey Jordan is a criminologist, behavioral analyst, and attorney in private practice. She is a contributor for CNN (Turner Broadcasting) serving as their in-house Criminologist. She is also the host-interviewer for Investigation Discovery's "Wives with Knives" and serves as a consultant crime analyst for several other ID shows, including "Scorned: Love Kills," " Wicked Attraction," "Deadly Sins" and "I (Almost) Got Away With It." Other shows include "The Killer Speaks," "CNN's Crimes of the Century," and TruTV's "Cold Case Squad." In 2011, she was the In Session Criminologist and Legal Analyst on CNN's sister station TruTV, offering assessment of criminal cases and commentary on featured court proceedings, including full-time live analysis of the Casey Anthony murder trial for In Session and HLN.
A professor in the Division of Justice & Law Administration at Western Connecticut State University since 1991, Dr. Jordan also spent 10 years teaching in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as well as serving as an adjunct professor at Iona College, Queens College, and St. Joseph's College in New York during the 1990s. Her courses include the Insanity Defense, Criminal Law, Advanced Criminology, Women & Criminal Justice, Policy Analysis, and Seminar on Violent Crime.
As a behavioral analyst focusing on the psychology of crime, Dr. Jordan has extensively researched violent crime causation and patterns, investigative profiles, and the trauma experience of victims. With grant-funded projects on serial killing and "hybrid" killers, multicide typologies, sexually-motivated captors and their captives, sexual assault risk factors assessment, and the phenomenon of false confession, she has interviewed dozens of violent offenders--both inmates and undetected criminals-and authored dozens of scholarly articles and four books.
An attorney, Dr. Jordan specializes in jury analysis and selection, consulting in the voire dire process, offering trial strategy and forensic evidence assessment in criminal cases. Certified in health law and mediation,her knowledge of forensic psychology has assisted in analyzing murder and sexual assault cases where low intelligence, diminished capacity, self-defense, and possible insanity are primary issues.
Dr. Jordan received her graduate degrees (Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A.) from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), her J.D. from Quinnipiac College of Law, and bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Law & Society from the University of Tulsa. She has presented papers, served as keynote speaker, and/or attended hundreds of conferences and training seminars, including the FBI Conference on Family Violence and Child Abuse.
Since 1992, Dr. Jordan has contributed to more than 1500 television stories on crime and legal issues, serving as the in-house CNN Criminologist during the 2002 D.C. Sniper Event. Appearances include NBC's The Today Show, CBS' The Early Show, ABC Good Morning America, 48 Hours Mystery, ABC's 20/20, CNN American Morning, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor, Anderson Cooper 360, Fox's Hannity, HLN's Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell, The Joy Behar Show, and as a regular guest on The Behavior Bureau for "Dr. Drew On Call."
Dr. Jordan regularly contributes to live interviews on CNN News, HLN, Fox News, Fox Financial, BBC, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera, and TruTV's "In Session." She analyzed more than 100 cases for Court TV during its tenure and in 2008 starred in the TruTV reality show Unsolved Murder Unit. In 2013 she provided extensive commentary on the Cleveland captives in the British documentary "House of Horrors." Printed media interview quotes have appeared in The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Monterey Herald, Connecticut Post, and Hartford Courant. Features on Dr. Jordan have appeared in Oprah's "O" magazine, USA Today, Yankee Magazine, Connecticut Law Tribune, Soundings, Law Crossings.com, Coastal Living, and the Danbury News Times.
