Inspired by a famous murder case, a team of researchers has figured out how the gas coming from a gun that has just fired can affect blood spatter in close-range shootings. Not only can this vortex of ...

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) is an interdisciplinary forensic technique that utilises principles of fluid dynamics and high-resolution imaging to reconstruct the events of a crime. The approach ...

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2023 – Often left on the surfaces of a crime scene or on the clothes of an accused criminal, blood back spatter can be used as evidence for forensic scientists to reconstruct ...

AMES, Iowa – Daniel Attinger paused before handing over a photo of a crime scene. “Are you bothered by the sight of blood?” There was good reason for his question: The photo showed blood pooled and ...

A crime scene investigator who has worked more than 3,000 deaths uses his own blood on social media to teach the world how to approach the job. Jeffrey Gentry, 40, is a certified bloodstain pattern ...

An influential state commission said the blood-spatter analysis used to convict a former Texas high school principal of murdering his wife in 1985 was “not accurate or scientifically supported” and ...

Bob O’Brien prepares to conduct a blood spatter test using a handgun as students Dean Cates and Lisa Grant watch. Herbert MacDonell, of the Bloodstain Evidence Institute of New York, talks about blood ...

When "Dexter: New Blood" premieres on Showtime on Nov. 7 — the show's first new episodes since the original series ended in 2013 — the titular character will have a new name (Jim Lindsay) and a new ...

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