Lynne Dean is a retired forensic scientist from King County Sheriff's Office in Seattle, Washington. She has over 35 years experience as a Latent Fingerprint Examiner in the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) with King County. Her first homicide scenes to assist on was that of the Green River Killer. Lynne responded to over 1,000 crime scenes to collect evidence and analyzed over one million fingerprint comparisons. She has trained examiners, police officers, and detectives for processing evidence and has presented her techniques at forensic conferences, student lectures and community events. Lynne has a degree in Criminal Justice from Washington State University, and an associates degree in Police Science from Green River College. Lynne also received training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Currently, she is an adjunct instructor for Green River College in Auburn, Washington.