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Grace Elting
Castle
 Grace Elting Castle, the former editor of PI
Magazine, has combined her extensive investigative and writing experiences to
create a career as a freelance writer and editor.
A former professional investigator, she owned
and operated Castle Investigations in Oregon for several years prior to moving
to Chicago in 1996. There she was the the Executive Managing Director and
Innocence Project Coordinator of the Paul J. Ciolino and Associates, Inc.
investigation firm for six years before resigning to pursue her writing
projects.
Ms. Castle was the editor, and
a co-author of Advanced Forensic Civil Investigations, and Advanced
Forensic Criminal Defense Investigations, the critically acclaimed
investigative textbooks published by Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co.
(L&J). She also was a co-author of the recently-released L&J book, Corporate
Investigations. In addition, Grace edited The Legal Investigator,
official educational journal of the National Association of Legal Investigators,
Inc. (NALI), for five years, and reinstituted the association’s quarterly
newsletter, NALI News. She also edited The Docket Sheet, official
publication of the National Association of Professional Process Servers, Inc. (NAPPS)
for several years, as well as editing the newsletter Hearsay, for the
Pacific Northwest Legal Assistants. A former award winning newspaper editor,
reporter and photographer, she is now a regular contributor to PI Magazine.
Her articles have also appeared in such publications as Heritage Quest, The
Texas Investigator, The Historian and Oregon Coast Magazine.
As a civil litigation
investigator, Grace has worked with the attorneys who pioneered sexual
exploitation cases against youth organizations, as well as assisting victims of
all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collisions in recovering millions of dollars from the
manufacturers. Her investigative specialties include psychological and sexual
abuse, product liability, wrongful death, and employment issues, and wrongful
conviction case review and investigation. She has been a principal defense
investigator for Native American victims of the American justice system.
She is a past president of the
Oregon Association of Licensed Investigators, Inc. (OALI), past editor of the
Pacific Northwest Legal Assistants Association (PNLA), a past NALI regional
director, and established the NALI Liaison project with the National Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).
Grace was a founding member of
the first National Conference on Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty
hosted in Chicago by Northwestern University School of Law in November 1998, and
was one of four presenters for the investigation seminars. In May 2000, she was
a founder, co-host, and speaker for the first North American Conference for
Wrongful Conviction Investigations held in Rosemont, IL. She continues her work
for the wrongfully convicted through writing, research and speaking engagements.
Grace has been listed in Who’s
Who of Professional Management, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s
Who in American Law, Who’s Who of the Midwest, and Who’s Who in America.
Email: GECastle@cluesonline.com
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