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Blood pattern analysis – principles

Blood pattern analysis - principles

The video opens with a summary of what you should have learned so far.

We then see how the stringing approach described in the second YouTube video (given in the previous step) was applied to the car in our case to identify the points of origin of the spatters. This video is available in the ‘see also’ resources below if you want to look at it again.

After a brief discussion of footwear marks in blood (a different perspective on blood pattern analysis), we have used some scenes from a case called ‘the Body in the Woods’ to show how BPA contributed to resolution of the question of ‘What?’ in this specific case.

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