Amanda Kilgore has been employed by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Crime Laboratory in the Drug Identification and Crime Scene Units since 2006. Ms. Kilgore began her career as a forensic chemist at the DEA Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Dulles, Virginia, where she worked in the Heroin Signature Program from 2005-2006, before relocating to her home state of Iowa to join the DCI. Ms. Kilgore has specialized in drug analysis for a total of 9 years. In addition, as a crime scene analyst she has traveled across the state of Iowa working major homicide and suspicious death scenes since 2007.
Ms. Kilgore received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and a bachelor of science degree in forensic science from the University of New Haven in 2004. She is a member of the Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists and a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.