Into the Fire - Cloyd Steiger

This Friday, October 3, 2025 at 7 pm on Into the Fire Episode 71 I will feature Cloyd Steiger retired in 2016 after 36 years with the Seattle Police Department. For the last 22 of them, he worked as a Homicide Detective, where he investigated several notorious and high profile murders.

He is currently the Chief Criminal Investigator in the Washington State Attorney General's Office Homicide Investigation Tracking System, (HITS), which tracks every murder in Washington, Oregon and Montana, hoping to spot related murders across jurisdictional lines. HITS also assists local law enforcement with murder investigations, including cold case murders.

Cloyd is the Director of Investigations Consulting for the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases, a national group that assists agencies nationwide in cold case murder investigations. (AISOCC.com) He wrote a quarterly column, "Inside the Yellow Tape" for Forensic Magazine. (www.forensicmag.com).

He is a regular contributor to True Crime with Nancy Grace on SiriusXm's Triumph channel, or at crimeonline.com.

He is married to his wife, Doreen. They have three sons, (two of which are Seattle Police Officers) and six grandchildren.