Melissa Maranville

Melissa Maranville is the Founder/CEO of DeVille and Associates, LLC, Forensic Investigator, Consultant, Nationally Certified LEO Instructor, Global Keynote Speaker/Trainer, Expert Panelist, International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST), Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, Blockchain Forensics Certified, and Certified Network Securities Expert.

Melissa's dedicated to building bridges and closing gaps in policing and technology by training on complex topics of investigations such as cryptocurrency and dark web, social media and OSINT, AI/Bots, linkage analysis software, deviance and predator behavior, sex crimes, sextortion, human trafficking, and CSAM investigations.

Melissa has over 30 years of experience in criminal justice. She began her career as a booking and intake officer cross-trained in crime scene investigations at Knox County Sheriff's Department, where she earned a letter of commendation for intelligence work on an absconded sex offender and a 15-year Criminology Professor. Melissa assisted in training and educating the FBI's Evidence Response Team in crime scene collection of human remains at the "Body Farm." She has also developed and delivered mass fatalities and counter-terrorism education at the Department of Homeland Security training division. She is also an expert speaker at conferences and on panels such as the World Anti-Counterfeiting Week held in Washington, D.C., on cryptocurrency and the dark web. Melissa developed and presented training content for the International IP Crime Investigator's College (IIPCIC), a UL and INTERPOL initiative, on "The Future of the Criminal Mind: Cryptocurrency and the Dark Web," and a separate conference on "Illicit Activity within the Free Trade Zones."

Melissa's education includes a bachelor's degree in Sociology/Criminology and a master's in criminology/public safety management from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. While in graduate school, she earned the privilege to study under Dr. Bill Bass, "the Body Farm," learning time-since-death at UTK's Forensic Anthropological Research Facility. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive psychology focusing on law enforcement officers' perspectives on the sex offender registry at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. Her dissertation topic is "A Case Study of Ineffective Legislation: Moral Panic and the Sex Offender Registry." When she concludes her Ph.D., she hopes to influence new sex offender legislation in monitoring registered and non-registered sex offenders, thus assisting law enforcement in tracing and tracking sex offenders. Melissa is the recipient of many honors and awards.