Bobby Dean Investigations

Bobby Dean Investigations provides a full list of professional private investigative services. We are a full-service investigative firm with each specialty handled by a Licensed Professional Private Investigator. We are both licensed and insured - California PI License #189087. We specialize in the investigation of Violent Crime: Homicide, Special Circumstance and 1st & 2nd Degree Murder cases, Manslaughter, Self-Defense, Suspicious Deaths, Suicides and Missing Person Cases. We also specialize, consult on and conduct independent reviews and investigations of Law Enforcement Critical Incidents; including Fatal and Non-Fatal Officer Involved Shootings (OIS), Peace Officer Use of Deadly Force, In-Custody Deaths and Crimes Committed Against Peace Officers resulting ion Great Bodily Injury or Death. Having access to an experienced investigator with decades or proven investigative results should be paramount to any law firm, attorney, victim, defendant, or family member of a victim of a violent crime or a defendant unjustly or over charged. Mr. Robert “Bobby” Dean, the Owner of BD Investigations, is a well-known, highly regarded and highly respected Homicide Investigator within the Southern California law enforcement community. He achieved a reputation as one of the most experienced, knowledgeable and credible Homicide, Violent Crime, Use of Deadly Force, Officer Involved Shooting, In-Custody Death and Critical Incident investigative experts within the State of California. Mr. Dean was a sworn law enforcement officer in both a voluntary and employed capacity for over 45 years. He began his law enforcement career in 1975 as a Volunteer Reserve Police Officer with the San Diego Police Department where he worked patrol and undercover assignments. On April 4, 1977, Mr. Dean accepted a sworn position as a Deputy Sheriff with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department where he served for the next 28 years. He worked many assignments; Corrections, Patrol, Investigative, Supervisory and Administrative. During that time, he gained vast expertise in the field of violent crime, complex murder and the Use of Deadly Force investigations. Specifically, Mr. Dean spent 8 years as a Sheriff’s Homicide Sergeant where he supervised Homicide Detectives, Criminalists and Crime Scene Specialists with their investigations. During his tenure with the Sheriff’s Homicide Detail, he investigated, supervised and consulted on over 250 murder, suspicious death, in-custody death and suicide cases and an additional 25 Officer Involved Shootings, Use of Deadly Force and In-Custody Death cases. Mr. Dean’s homicide experience includes the investigation of Special Circumstance Death Penalty cases, 1st and 2nd degree murder cases, both Voluntary and In-Voluntary manslaughter cases, justifiable homicide, self-defense cases, and Cold Case murder investigations. In December 2004, and after retiring from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Mr. Dean accepted a position as a Criminal Investigator I with the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. He was promoted twice and eventually retired honorably from the District Attorney’s Office on October 18, 2019 as a DA Investigator III. Mr. Dean was initially assigned to the Superior Court Division to conduct following up investigations and prepare major cases for trial. After less than two years in that assignment, Mr. Dean was re-assigned to the District Attorney’s Special Operation Unit. In that assignment, and between 2006 and 2013, Mr. Dean was the Lead DA Investigator assigned to, and responsible for investigating all Officer Involved Shootings, Use of Deadly Force and In-Custody death cases that resulted in great bodily injury or death that occurred within the County of San Diego. For seven years, Mr. Dean responded to, investigated, reviewed and consulted on every Officer Involved shooting and In-Custody death case that occurred within the County of San Diego. During his tenure with the District Attorney’s Office, he investigated and consulted on an additional 50 homicide cases and over 125 Officer Involved shooting and In-Custody death cases. Mr. Dean now consults on, conducts independent investigative case file reviews and analysis, scene inspections, witness, subject and victim interviews, critical incident re-enactments, and supplies expert witness testimony in all of the above types of cases. CV available on request.