Historian - Candice Lanham

Candice Lanham is currently an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) and oversees the crime scene program, which consists of 26 crime scene agents across the state. Candice began her career in law enforcement with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office as a crime scene Detective assigned to the City County Bureau of Identification (CCBI) unit in 2015.

In 2018, Candice went to work for the NCSBI, where she was assigned as a field agent and crime scene agent in the Capital District. Capital District consists of 11 counties, and Candice was assigned to Franklin and Warren counties, where she conducted Officer Involved Shootings, Death in Custody investigations, Homicides, Assaults, Frauds, Narcotics investigations, and Human Trafficking investigations.  Candice was promoted in 2022 to ASAC, where she began to lead the crime scene program.

Candice has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Western Carolina University, where she graduated in 2014 with Honors as Cum Laude.

Candice holds an Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate from the NC Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, is a General Instructor, and attended the National Forensics Academy in Knoxville, TN in 2019.

Candice is a current member of the International Association for Identification (IAI), the North Carolina Division of the International Association for Identification (NCIAI), the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA), and the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction (ACSR), where she was a Board of Directors member from 2024-2026.

Candice is currently certified by the International Association for Identification as a Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst (CSCSA) and by the Law Enforcement Innovation Center as a Crime Scene Investigator.