Career & Background
Joseph ("Joe") Auriemma, Jr. is a nationally recognized expert in investigative interviewing and strategic communication, with more than 24 years of distinguished experience in law enforcement. He retired as a Senior Investigator with the New York State Police, where he applied evidence-based interview strategies to complex criminal investigations, including homicides, child exploitation cases, and sensitive internal inquiries.
During his career, Joe advanced through roles as a uniformed trooper, Investigator, and Senior Investigator. For seventeen years, he served in the Bureau of Criminal Investigations, including six and a half years in the Major Crimes Unit, conducting thousands of interviews and interrogations that directly contributed to successful prosecutions and meaningful case outcomes. As a Senior Investigator, Joe supervised five investigators and twenty-nine uniformed troopers.
Polygraph & Leadership
Joe's investigative leadership extended beyond casework. As one of two Regional Coordinators for the New York State Police Polygraph Unit, he oversaw thirty-two examiners and helped implement a comprehensive quality-control program. He is a Certified Polygraph Examiner (since 2015) and holds the designation of International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training National Certified Instructor (INCI) and Certified Forensic Interviewer (CFI).
Instruction & Recognition
Joe served as a lead instructor at the New York State Police Academy, where his Investigative Interviewing course became the foundation he has since used to train more than 6,500 professionals in evidence-based communication, crisis negotiation, search warrant writing, and advanced investigative techniques, across law enforcement, attorneys, HR, Title IX administrators, educators, and victim advocates. His contributions earned him the George M. Searle Memorial Award in 2019, an honor given to individuals who demonstrate excellence and lasting impact in law enforcement instruction.
Joe has also been featured in national television media, including appearances on Dateline and Rescue 911.
Major Cases & the Google Tombstone Report
Over twenty-four years of investigative work, Joe served as lead investigator or supervising investigator on some of the most complex homicide and major-crimes cases in his region. One of those cases, the Brandyn Foster homicide, produced an outcome that extended well beyond the original investigation.
During the investigation of the Brandyn Foster homicide, Joe worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and, through FBI-facilitated coordination, spoke directly with engineering personnel at Google. That conversation revealed that certain deleted-user-data records existed within Google systems but were not being produced in response to lawful process. Those investigative findings directly contributed to changes in how Google documented deleted-data responses and to the development of what became known as the Google Tombstone Report, a record identifying data that once existed on Google systems but had since been deleted or rendered unavailable.
The legal-process discipline that produced that result, knowing what to ask for, how to articulate it, and how to anticipate provider response, is the same discipline Joe now teaches in ASC's Precision Search Warrants course.
Advanced Strategic Communications
Today, Joe leads ASC, a professional training and consulting firm that equips law enforcement, government agencies, corporate teams, HR professionals, legal practitioners, educational institutions, and sports organizations with advanced interview and communication skills. At ASC, Joe is the architect of Teach to Talk® and the Adaptive Strategies Compass™, proprietary frameworks that emphasize strategic, evidence-based conversational approaches over rigid scripts and checklists.
