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:

                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.

Her academic pages at Simon Fraser University where she is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics are  here

If you have a case involving language evidence, contact Lorna. 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, Lorna does not take cases from pro se clients or individuals conducting their own investigations.