William C. Dear has worked all over the world, predominately on homicide investigations. He began his career as a police officer in Miami, Florida, and in 1961, he opened his own investigation agency, William C. Dear & Associates Inc., in Dallas, Texas. Dear is a renowned and entertaining speaker at conventions, training, workshops, and banquets. As a certified instructor in the field of homicide, Dear lectures and teaches law enforcement around the world. He was also appointed by the court to the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1981. Dear has received national and international acclaim on cases that made worldwide news coverage, most notably for the Dean Milo murder in Akron, Ohio, which resulted in eleven arrests and convictions—the most ever in U.S. history for a single murder case. Dear was inducted into the American Police Hall of Fame on April 14, 1988, as a private investigator receiving the Archangel Award for the Milo murder case. He is also the author of The Dungeon Master about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III.