Blood+Splatter+Homework+Pages+10-13-SF

Pages 10-13 Notes -Blood splatter occurs when there is a wound, and blood exits the body -Patterns can help to hint at what happened from the violent act -1894 Pitoroski wrote the first refrence to blood splatter analysis -1839 Balthazard was the first to study actuial blood splatter patterns -Blood is a mixture of red blood cells and plasma -Blood mixture is drawn blood mixtures just like its self, and as a result it sticks togather rather than seperate when it falls to leave a stain or puddle -Blood drops doesn't mean that the blood has completely flattened out - Blood tightens up and resists the force to flatten out, creating an odd shape -If blood is dropped onto a smooth surface, the drop will be smooth -If blood is dropped onto an uneven or non flat surface it forms spikes to mimik that of what it landed on -1902 Dr. John Glaister formed a 6 pattern rule that every blood pattern will fit into -Splatter patterns can determin what type of wound was inflicted upon the victum -A mist splatter is that of a gun shot wound -Beatings lead to blood splatters with a lower velocity -Point of orgin is something that can be determined by the length and width of the dropletts -Circular drop of blood means that the blood fell straight down at a degree of 90 -When a blood dropplet is enlarged its possible to tell from what direction it came from -When blood comes into contact with something it has a tendency to stick to it -The source of blood is able to be determined if two or more dropplets of blood are found