About Diana Trepkov

Diana P. Trepkov is a Forensic Artist, Author, Lecturer, Creator, Producer & Host of the Podcast, “Can I Help Find Your Missing Loved One?” She is best known for her work in forensic art. She started off her career volunteering at the Durham Rape Crisis center to help victims of crime.  Throughout Canada and the United States, she has been an artist for many years and has been involved in 242 law enforcement cold cases to date, which involved her forensic artwork techniques. Ms. Trepkov has helped to solve high profile cases in the United States. 

Ms. Trepkov has appeared on national television shows, such as CTV’s Canada AM, CTV news, Global News, Rogers TV, CTV National News, Mystery TV, WINK Florida News, GTA’s Most Wanted, First Local, My Community Rogers TV, CP24 NEWS, ABC 15 Phoenix, History Channel, Nancy Grace, CNN World News Live, CNN Headline News live with Ali Velshi, CNN Breaking News with Brooke Baldwin regarding Baby Doe from Boston and News 14 Carolina, and was featured as the cover story for PI Magazine, which is an international magazine and the cover story for Blue Line Magazine. She was recently on CBC Radio, The Current – to catch a criminal, police sketches.  Her forensic artwork has been published all over North America in various newspapers. Ms. Trepkov has written articles for the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Agenda. She was a presenter for the FBI Conference and was awarded a plaque. 

Ms. Trepkov was featured in the Toronto Star Newspaper “Face to Face with 2 Doomed Franklin Members.” Another article was written in the World in Brief Exclusive, Sunday Post in Scotland regarding the Franklin Expedition titled “170 years on, is this a face from one of the Navy’s darkest hours?” Diana’s work on the Franklin Expedition was featured many times in the Above & Beyond Magazine – Canada’s Arctic Journal (First Air, The Airline of the North). 

Her work on the 1845 lost Franklin Expedition and the facial reconstructions have been displayed at the Canadian Museum of History with several other institutions both internationally and within Canada. The exhibition opened at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK before travelling to Canada. Diana presented a lecture about the Lost Franklin Expedition facial reconstructions at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in September 2016. 
Ms. Trepkov previously worked for the York Regional Police Service in the Forensic Identification Bureau and previously served as a Toronto Police Auxiliary officer with the Toronto Police Service. She is a member of the Toronto Police Victim/Witness Advocate Committee. She is a good standing member of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police since 2005, The Canadian Liaison for The Associated Licensed Detectives of New York State (ALDONYS) and Alba Investigations, Inc.  Her articles have been published in Blue Line Magazine, which is Canada’s national law enforcement magazine and H.Q. which is the official magazine of The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. Her forensic artwork has also been featured in Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases, a book by R. J. Hoshowsky.  Diana’s first book was published in April 2011 and is called, “Faceless, Voiceless – From Search to Closure, A Forensic Artist’s Inspirational Approach to the Missing and Unidentified.”   Diana also has 4 children books published. These books have a mission and that is to help prevent children from going missing and to help them make positive choices in life.