Lorna Fadden, Ph.D. selectively consults in the area of forensic discourse analysis for legal counsel and law enforcement on cases involving language evidence.

Recent representative cases include:

                A series of stalking letters
                Child witness' statements of sex abuse
                Alleged suicide note via text messages (shown here)
                Emails containing questionable confessions of abuse
                Corporate survey, with insider tampering
                A series of bomb threats

Dr. Fadden restricts her cases to those in the US and Canada, providing expert reports and when necessary, testimony. She has experience working with various types of written and spoken language sources, such as emails, text messages, threats, letters, blogs, editorials, chat logs, surveys, as well as recorded conversation including investigative interviews, emergency calls, and undercover recordings.

Dr. Fadden is also an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Her academic pages are here.

If you have a case involving language evidence, contact Dr. Fadden. If she can help, she will. If the case is not in her area, she can refer you to the most appropriate specialist. Please note, she does not take cases from pro se clients or individuals conducting their own investigations.