Kenneth R. Morris is a certified criminal profiler. Upon graduating from the Virginia Military Institute, he served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer before joining the Virginia Department of State Police (VSP) as a Trooper in 1987. He enjoyed a varied career that included traffic enforcement, bomb and fire investigation, bloodstain analysis, crisis negotiation, and evidence collection at crime scenes.

 

Ken entered training to become a criminal profiler in 2002. His profiling certification was attained by completing an arduous training agenda mandated by the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF), a renowned group whose membership includes active and retired profilers from various elite law enforcement agencies from the US and around the world.

 

After 27 years as a sworn member of the State Police, Ken retired from its behavioral assessment unit on September 1, 2014. His days of leisure were short lived however, as he was asked to return to the VSP behavioral assessment unit on October 26, 2015, as a civilian criminal profiler-consultant. As of 2025, Ken has been in law enforcement for nearly 37 years and has contributed to hundreds of investigations. He still actively works on violent crime cases for local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies around the United States and internationally. Recently, he assisted with investigations in Virginia, North Carolina, Idaho, California, and Missouri.

 

Ken has lectured extensively on criminal profiling throughout the United States and has done so abroad in Canada, Germany, and South Africa. He has lectured at universities, military installations, hospitals (forensic nursing units), and to local, state, and federal personal, to include the Virginia State Police, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US Army, the US Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Ken also lectures for The Alpha Group Center for Crime & Intelligence Analysis Training (Montclair, CA)​ and Investigative Concepts (Norfolk, VA)

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He is a graduate of the Virginia State Police Basic Academy, the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (Criminal Profiling) Understudy Program, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science Academy, the National Fire Academy, and the FBI Basic Bomb and Hazardous Devices School at Redstone Arsenal.

 

Ken served as a Board Member and Vice President of the Virginia Homicide Investigators’ Association for 16 years. He has been mentioned in various media outlets, including the book AMERICAN FIRE by Monica Hesse (2017), the HBO series BURDEN of PROOF (2023), and an upcoming true crime documentary tentatively entitled “IGNITE” (2025?).