Arpad Vass

Personal life Vass is the son of a Hungarian immigrant. He grew up in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Yorktown High School in 1977. He is married to Victoria Ann Longo.

He formerly taught at the Law Enforcement Innovation Center, which is part of the University of Tennessee's Institute for Public Service. For 23 years, he worked as a research scientist within the Life Sciences Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory until September 2012. Subsequently, he has been a part-time instructor at the National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and has offered various services in missing person cases.

Education and research In 1980, Vass obtained the Antarctic Exploration certification from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The following year, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Virginia Tech. In 1984, Vass earned a Medical Technology degree from Fairfax Hospital. He earned a Masters of Science degree in Forensic Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1989, and he obtained his PhD from the University of Tennessee in anthropology. He has also claimed, despite scientific consensus to the contrary, that dowsing rods can be used to find corpses.