Rod Englert received a Bachelor's degree in Police Administration from California State University at Los Angeles and has done post-graduate work in psychology. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, where he was President of the 159th Session.

Chief Deputy Englert has conducted over 580 lectures and training seminars on managing criminal investigations, solving unresolved homicides, blood spatter interpretation and crime scene reconstruction to law enforcement personnel and district attorneys in 35 states as well as in Canada, Russia, England, France, and South America. He has consulted in over 425 criminal and civil death cases in the United States. He has testified and is a qualified court expert in homicide in 26 states. Englert is a member of the International Homicide Investigator’s Association; several states’ Homicide Investigator’s Associations; a Fellow, Distinguished Member, President (2001/2002), and Chairman of the Board (2002-2003) of the Association of Crime Scene Reconstructionists; a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences; and is Past-President of the International Association of Blood Pattern Analysts. He has received the Lecturer of Merit and Distinguished Faculty Awards from the National College of District Attorneys.

Chief Deputy Englert has authored Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist ( Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press, 2010)