Ross M. Gardner worked for the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) as a felony criminal investigator for nearly twenty years. He retired as a Command Sergeant Major and Special Agent in 1999 after serving a total of 24 years in US Army law enforcement. Ross subsequently served four years as the Chief of Police for the City of Lake City Georgia, a small suburban Atlanta police department. He is now retired and active in independent consulting.

The mission of Bevel, Gardner & Associates is to provide accurate peer reviewed analysis of complex scenes in support of criminal or other legal actions. We provide outstanding instruction in bloodstain pattern analysis, crime scene processing, shooting incident reconstruction, officer involved shootings and computer animation.