Casey Jordan, Ph.D., J.D., is a criminologist, investigative profiler, attorney, and Host of the podcast “Criminal Appeal with Dr. Casey Jordan.” She is a professor of Justice and Law Administration at Western Connecticut State University where she has taught for more than 30 years.
Since 2002, Dr. Jordan has served as a contributor-criminologist and legal analyst for CNN, HLN, and TruTV offering commentary on more than 2500 television shows and newspaper stories, including more than 200 true-crime episodes for shows on Investigation Discovery, Oxygen, A&E, Sky TV, the BBC, ABC News 20/20, MSNBC, and CourtTV. She has worked with Piers Morgan on his true-crime series Psychopath and from 2012-17 hosted a branded show on Investigation Discovery called Wives with Knives, interviewing women who stabbed their partners.
As a regular guest on CourtTV for more than a decade, Casey Jordan joined TruTV’s In Session in 2011 as a full-time legal analyst and crime story contributor, covering stories such as the Gilgo Beach murders, the trials of Casey Anthony, Warren Jeffs, and Conrad Murray, and doing regular commentary on cases from the murder charges against Amanda Knox to the disappearance of Natalie Holloway.
Casey Jordan holds an M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a J.D. from Quinnipiac College of Law where she excelled in trial practice, an M.F.A. from Western Connecticut State University, and bachelor’s degrees in political science and law and society from the University of Tulsa. As a trial attorney, defense strategist, and jury consultant, she has worked on high profile murder cases with attorney Mickey Sherman, including State of CT v. Miraj Gocaj (accused of murdering his restaurateur uncle and cutting him up with a meat saw, disposing of the body parts along a highway).
Her forthcoming book, Modern Profiles: Investigative Profiling in the 21st Century (Cognella Publishing), a trade book proposing a new taxonomy of criminal profiles in our technology-based and social media-driven culture, will be published in 2027.
