Meet the LexisNexis® Public Safety Special Investigations Unit

Anna Hill served as the Fort Smith Police Department, in Arkansas, Crime Analyst for four and half years.  Anna graduated from the University of South Florida with a Master’s degree in Criminology and began her career as a Research Assistant at the University of Missouri Saint Louis where she spent a year focusing on victimology, the behavior of law, and victimization surveys. Anna specializes in the review of large sets of law enforcement data and can provide in-depth knowledge and expertise to customers during the project implementation phase. 

Eric Kraus retired with more than twenty-seven years with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and embedded with numerous federal, state, and local task forces during this time. Eric was Team Leader of the CDCR’s Fugitive Apprehension Team where he was tasked with the location and apprehension of the State’s most serious and violent fugitive felons. He was cross sworn as a Special Deputy United States Marshals to the US Marshal’s Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force and served for many years on a local Career Criminal Task Force.  Eric is a court-certified gang expert who specialized in white street and prison gangs. Eric has testified as a gang expert more than one hundred times in federal and state court.

Nicholas (Nick) Lootens has more than fourteen years of experience in law enforcement, five as a patrol officer and eight as an investigator and intelligence analyst. Nick served on the Major Case Team and Intelligence and Technical Investigation Unit of the Grand Rapids Police Department, specializing in violent crime investigations. Prior to joining the Grand Rapids Police Department, Nick served as a Special Investigator with the Office of the Inspector General, an Intelligence Manager for the Department of Defense, and as an Intelligence Non-Commissioned Officer for the United States Army.  

Kathleen (Katie) Murphy spent thirteen years in law enforcement in a variety of intelligence and analytical roles at both the local and state levels in the Central Florida area. Most recently, she served as the Sr. Crime Intelligence Analyst Supervisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Orlando. At the State, she also served as a program director for the state’s certification for law enforcement analysts, instructing in all topics related to analytical and intelligence techniques. Her own analytical experience focused on multi-jurisdictional violent and organized crime, intelligence and strategic assessments, crime pattern analysis and critical incident response. Katie is certified as a law enforcement intelligence analyst from three professional governing bodies: The State of Florida, the California Department of Justice, and the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA).

Shanna Spagnuolo has over twenty years of law enforcement experience.  Shanna worked in a variety of roles including Crime Analyst, Criminal Intelligence Specialist and Supervising Crime Analyst at the state and local law enforcement levels. As a Criminal Intelligence Specialist, she was assigned to the Criminal Intelligence Bureau of the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) followed by the CA DOJ Los Angeles Regional Gang Information Network and finally the CA DOJ Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement. During her tenure with the CA DOJ, her primary role was to support tactical narcotic and gang investigations. She transitioned to local law enforcement as a Supervising Crime analyst with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department where she led analysts from the field operations, detective, and custody operations divisions. She received the Departments’ Exemplary Service Award for a self-initiated Crime Analysis Program information sharing project.