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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A new study analyzes the way that bloodstains behave on cotton fabrics in the hopes of furthering forensic analysis. The shapes and intensities of bloodstains can provide investigators information ...

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 ...

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 ...