Blood spatters are hydrodynamic signatures of violent crimes, often revealing when an event occurred and where the perpetrator and victim were located, and researchers have worked toward better ...

“FIRE in the hole!,” yells bloodstain pattern analyst Shawn Harkins from inside the family room of an ordinary-looking suburban weatherboard house. The three of us standing outside the front door take ...

Analysing the blood stains following a shooting can be key to finding the perpetrator, but it’s a field of forensics that is being called into question. Sidney Perkowitz explains how understanding the ...

image: Blood spatters are hydrodynamic signatures of violent crimes, often revealing when an event occurred and where the perpetrator and victim were located, and researchers have worked toward better ...

David Camm lost 13 years of his life to eight drops of blood. In 2000, the Indiana state trooper was charged with murder after finding his wife and two children shot to death in their home. During the ...

SAN BERNARDINO – A San Bernardino courtroom became a makeshift laboratory Wednesday afternoon when jurors in the double-homicide trial of 68-year-old Robert Johnson saw firsthand how blood spatter and ...

In general, bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) refers to the collection and subsequent forensic analysis investigation of the size, shape, and distribution patterns of bloodstains found at a crime ...

This New Scientist article, usually accessible only to subscribers, is made available for free by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, Australia Whodunnit? Forensic investigators could ...

LEBANON, IN (WAVE) - The case against former Indiana state trooper David Camm has turned to show to go with the tell the past two days in his third trial for the murders of his wife and their two ...

In last month's forensic column I described a scene where two officers responding to crime scene find several victims apparently murdered in a private home. One officer has entered at the front of the ...

LEBANON, IN (WAVE) - David Camm's attorneys attacked blood-pattern analysis as "suspect and subjective, rather than science" after testimony from a state police specialist all but ruled out Camm's ...