Marine Corp. He started his career as a state trooper in the Traffic Law Enforcement Division and promoted through the ranks to Captain in the Criminal Law Enforcement Division and then to Inspector. He has served as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Major Crimes Assessment Committee sponsored by the Sheriff s Association of Texas. This sixteen-member committee composed of city, county, and state police officers, a police psychologist, and a neurosurgeon meets quarterly to provide law enforcement agencies assistance on unsolved sexual assault and homicide cases.
All members have extensive investigative experience and training in criminal personality profiling.
Marx is a graduate of Dr. Martin Reiser s Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute in Los Angeles, as well as many other hypnosis schools and holds an Investigative Hypnotist Certificate with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Education. In addition he participated in the development and implementation of the organized forensic hypnosis program for the Texas Department of Public Safety. One of Inspector Howell s last official assignments prior to retirement was the responsibility for planning, coordinating, and facilitating the Critical Incident Stress Debrief ings for over 100 state police personnel involved in the Branch Davidian aftermath in Waco, Texas and also to provide follow up stress management training. Marx was also in charge of the Department s Employee Assistance Program, is trained in crisis intervention, hostage negotiation, and has taught interpersonal violence courses to law enforcement officers for the past fifteen years. He conducts seminars and provides training to over 2,200 people annually in the law enforcement community, the corporate sector, and civic groups.