What the untrained eye sees as gory messes in crime scene photos, are, to the blood stain (or blood spatter) analyst, meaningful patterns and potentially important pieces of evidence. A large, round ...

The problem with blood spatter analysis isn’t (wasn’t) just the lack of a rigorous theoretical framework. The problem is the reliability and reproducibility of expert interpretations of blood ...

Researchers say they have developed a theoretical model for both interpreting and predicting blood-spatter that results from a gunshot wound. Pictured, (a) Experimental bloodstains in back spatter ...

Bullet shape, velocity determine blood spatter patterns An enhanced bloodstain pattern analysis technique will help crime scene investigators more accurately reconstruct and determine the origins ...

Bullet shape, velocity determine blood spatter patterns. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 08 / 190806121136.htm. American Institute of Physics.

Blood spatter progresses in two directions—backward, toward the shooter, and forward, parallel to the path of the bullet—and neither is very straightforward.

They only allow investigators to determine general categories of velocity, like low, medium or high impact. The calculations also assume that the drops travel along a straight path.

Prosecutors focused on blood spatter Tuesday at the trial of an Orland Park man accused of fatally shooting his wife in 2010. Allan Kustok, 63, is charged with killing his wife, Anita "Jeanie ...

The defense in Phil Spector's murder trial on Monday called one of its most highly touted forensic experts, who told jurors that blood spatter from a gunshot wound can travel up to six feet.

Don’t get me wrong, blood spatter is very helpful in investigation and once you understand how to read it, it brings to light so much of the story of what happened at that scene. The absence of ...