Henry Lee famously spat ketchup in the Durham murder trial of novelist Michael Peterson, showing jurors how blood spatters form.

Physicists continue to contribute their unique insight into the forensic analysis of blood spatter patterns with two recent papers. The first, published in Physics of Fluids, offers a useful ...

“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 ...

Forensic scientist claims blood spatter evidence at Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home suggests the 84-year-old mother of Savannah ...

Blood droplets found outside of Nancy Guthrie‘s Tucson, Ariz., home could reveal new clues as to what happened to the ailing 84-year-old amid her terrifying abduction. In the wake of her disappearance ...

Nancy Guthrie's disappearance investigation deepens as blood spatter evidence suggests the 84-year-old may have been alive ...

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 ...

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 ...