Our Instructors

Dan Rice

Dan is a retired Special Agent of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service where he served for over 25 years before his 2011 retirement. While with NCIS, he specialized in homicide and cold case investigations. He was stationed throughout the Norfolk Field Office, Okinawa Resident Agency, and Headquarters. He was the Assistant Team Leader of the Norfolk Major Case Response Team, and the Team Leader of the MCRT in Okinawa, where he processed homicide and sexual assault crime scenes.

Following his NCIS time, Dan spent three years working cold case espionage cases for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Since 2014 he has been a senior cold case homicide analyst for the Virginia State Police where he supports state, local and federal law enforcement agencies with cold cases. Dan also works with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as a consultant for Team Adam. In his NCMEC role, Dan has travelled up and down the East Coast assisting law enforcement agencies on cold cases involving juveniles.

As a certified law enforcement instructor, he has presented training in Sexual Assaults, Death Investigations, Crime Scene Processing and Management, and Cold Case Methodologies at seminars for local, state, and federal agencies as well as internationally in the Far East, Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dan is a Charter Member of the Virginia Homicide Investigators Association, and a two-time recipient of the VHIA Homicide Investigator of the Year award. He was also presented the Navy Judge Advocate General Special Agent of the Year Award while stationed in Norfolk.

He is a graduate of Old Dominion University and served in the United States Navy, where he flew in the F-4 Phantom as a Radar Intercept Officer. Following his Navy stint, and prior to his NCIS career, Dan spent six years with the Virginia Beach Police Department. Three years were in uniform patrol, and the last three years were with the Special Operations Division where he worked traffic, flew as a helicopter observer, and was a member of the police dive team. Dan is also a certified Divemaster with the Professional Association of Diving Instructors.