Allison O'Neal

Allison O’Neal is a research public health analyst in RTI's Justice Practice Area. She has 25 years of experience conducting, supervising, and providing training on medicolegal death investigations, long-term missing and unidentified person investigations, and probate conservatorship investigations. At RTI, Ms. O’Neal contributes to the Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons system (NamUs) Program and is a coach with RTI's Forensics Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) team.

Prior to joining RTI in 2021, Ms. O’Neal served as a supervising deputy coroner at the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner in California and as a probate court investigator at the California Superior Court. In addition to investigative and supervision duties, she was Orange County's Long-term Unidentified Deceased Team coordinator. Ms. O'Neal also served as the NamUs Regional Program Specialist for California since 2018, where she spent considerable time ensuring equitable forensic resources were afforded to migrant and tribal missing and unidentified person investigations.