Global Forensic Services, LLC
Areas of Expertise: Questioned Documents
Worldwide forensic services specializing in forensic document examination, questioned documents, ink analysis, ink/paper age, alteration, fraud, forgery, piracy, counterfeiting, Art composition and dating, fingerprints, crime scene analysis, trace evidence, arson, explosives, handwriting, trial preparation, cold case investigations, Daubert or Frye Rule issues.
Global Forensic Services, LLC is owned and operated by Larry Stewart who has earned an Associate of Arts degree from Florida Technological University in Orlando, a Bachelor of Science in Forensic Science degree from the University of Central Florida, also in Orlando and a Master of Forensic Sciences degree from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Mr. Stewart has worked for the U.S. Government as a forensic scientist for over 35 years. During his career he has worked on many notable cases to include; the Unabomber, the John Wilkes Booth diary, numerous accused Nazi war criminals, e.g. John Demanjuk, a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, the reinvestigation of the Dr. Martin Luther King murder, the reinvestigation of the Kennedy assassination/CIA conspiracy theory, the Quedlinburg Treasure, the Jon Benet Ramsey murder investigation, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the DC Sniper investigation and the 2010 Brazilian presidential election scandal. He has testified as an expert witness in state, federal and military courts of law, as well as testified or been deposed in foreign court systems to include; Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. He has also testified at The Hague in the Netherlands and three times before the U.S. Congress. Mr. Stewart most recently held the position of Laboratory Director and Chief Forensic Scientist for the United States Secret Service. In that role, he managed up to 120 scientists, technicians, and support staff in the areas of document analysis, handwriting, fingerprints, trace evidence, audio and video analysis, photography, toolmarks, computer evidence and counterfeit analysis. In 2005, Mr. Stewart retired from the federal government and began the independent forensic consulting and investigative firm known as Stewart Forensic Consultants, LLC, later changed to Global Forensic Services, LLC and its subsidiary, Global Investigative Intelligence Services.