sheryl mccollum
This will be Sheryl "Mac" McCollum's second CrimeCruise! Mac's law-enforcement career began in 1982 at the Rape Crisis Center at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. From there, she was director of the Metro Atlanta Cold Case Crime Analysis Squad. During the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the coordinator for the Crisis Response Team that planned and trained for four years and responded to the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, providing victim services.
In 2004, Mac founded Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), which unites researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community to work collectively to advance research, training and techniques in solving cold cases.
CCIRI has since worked with over 27 colleges and universities, more than 8,000 students and 600 experts, have volunteered their time and talents to solve cold cases. CCIRI is a nationwide volunteer network that assist victims' families and law enforcement by working on unsolved homicides, missing persons and kidnapping cases.
Mac has worked with criminals like famed Mafia hit man Frank Cullotta, the ex Imperial Wizard of the KKK, the Flint River Killer, Alcatraz Inmate #1355 Robert Schibline and Jimmy Hoffa’s driver, The Weasel, to gain intel on how to solve certain cold cases. She has also worked side by side with notable family members such as Lana Wood, Beth Holloway, Donna Norris, Sue Savio, Lois Duncan, Donna Pettis and Susan Levy. She not only admires them but considers them friends. She has genuinely befriended them all. For almost forty years, Sheryl has used her training and experience in criminal justice to solve some of the country’s most difficult cases.
Mac 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 has reviewed, consulted and worked on thousands of criminal cases across the USA as a Crime Scene Investigator and Director of the CCIRI. 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.
She is a contributing writer for CrimeOnline, crime-fighting website founded by Nancy Grace.