Page 22 - Patterns of Murder Blood Spatter

Pre-Lab

Questions

Background Procedure

1. What is the first step in characterizing a 6. At what angles and heights will you drop
bloodstain pattern? blood? How many sheets of drops will you
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2. What does a medium-velocity blood stain
look like? 7. When measuring the width and length of
.............................................................................. blood droplet, which will be longer?
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3. What type of objects might cause wounds
with low, medium, and high impact patterns? 8. When stringing a crime scene or crime scene
.............................................................................. model, what does the string’s intersection
.............................................................................. indicate?
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4. In Blood Stain Pattern Analysis, what is
indicated by a void?
.............................................................................. 9. Why is it, or is it not, important to know the
.............................................................................. scale of the crime scene photos?
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5. If you were studying a bloodstain on a flat
surface, what are the shapes of droplets you
will observe? What do they indicate?
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