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Mark MacKizer

The products resulted in strategies and recommendations which furthered criminal investigations and prosecutions.  The products were provided to law enforcement and prosecutors through on-site or remote consultations with Mark and other members of BAU.  During his time at BAU, Mark either led or assisted with consultations involving law enforcement agencies in 30 states and the countries of Canada, Tajikistan, Thailand and Spain. 

These consultations covered such areas as threats of targeted violence, terrorism, homicide, sexual assault, child abduction, equivocal death and cold cases.

Mark has made over 120 presentations in 24 states and 4 countries, Canada, Georgia, Moldova and Thailand, to various government and professional organizations.  The presentations/training included the following areas:

General Training

  • Criminal Investigations

  • Interview and interrogation 

  • Investigating Criminal Enterprise Crimes

  • Crime scene investigation

  • Sex offender characteristics

  • Child abduction investigations

  • Child homicide investigations

  • Managing cold cases

Behavioral Analysis-Based Training

  • Criminal investigative analysis

  • Risk assessment

  • Threat assessment

  • Threat management 

  • Investigative strategies

  • Media strategies

  • Case linkage analysis

  • Equivocal death analysis

  • Unknown offender profile

During his Bureau career, Mark was an adjunct faculty member at the FBI Academy and the New York Police Department Detective Bureau Homicide Investigators Course.  As an adjunct faculty member at the FBI Academy, he instructed new-Agents’ classes and University of Virginia accredited graduate sessions for law enforcement managers attending the National Academy. In addition, Mark has presented to other organizations and institutions, including the following:

Academic Institutions

Law Enforcement

State & Local Agencies

FBI

International

Professional Organization Training/Conferences

Intelligence

Military

Articles & Publications

Mark contributed to BAU’s quantitative research of crimes involving child victimization to enhance operational support for law enforcement. This resulted in Mark co-authoring the following articles and publications:

  • Amman, M., & MacKizer, M. (2017). A crisis threat assessment: The boy in the bunker. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 4(2), 77.

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (2014). Child Abduction Response Plan: An Investigative Guide (3rd Edition).

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (2015). Understanding Child Abduction. Crimes Against Children: Behavioral and Investigative Perspectives from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, 3-16.

  • Shelton, J., Hilts, M., & MacKizer, M. (2016). An exploratory study of residential child abduction: An examination of offender, victim and offense characteristics. Aggression and violent behavior, 30, 24-31.

  • Shelton, Joy., Hilts, Mark., & MacKizer, Mark., (2017) Residential Child Abduction Cases. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (November 15, 2017).  https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/residential-child-abduction-cases

Prior to Mark’s assignment to BAU-3 he held a variety of positions in the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia field office including Special Weapons and Tactics Team operator, Evidence Response Team member, BAU coordinator, Crisis Management coordinator, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force coordinator and Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force coordinator. For 20 years as a field agent, he conducted investigations, in coordination with state and local law enforcement, into crimes involving kidnapping, robbery, murder and drug trafficking. Mark also served as the team leader for the FBI’s Southeast Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, which was responsible for providing on-site investigative consultations to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in the Southeast region of the United States during active child abduction or mysterious child disappearance investigations. 

Prior to the FBI, Mark was employed as a Special Investigator with the New York State Attorney General’s Office specializing in the investigation of crimes in medical facilities or perpetrated by medical providers. Prior to that, he was employed by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in Rochester, New York as a Deputy Sheriff assigned to the Police Bureau. Mark has a Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Rochester Institute of Technology.