High-Speed Video Analysis of Forward and Backward Spattered Blood Droplets

Working for project No. 06-S-02 for the Midwest Forensics Resource Center (MFRC), T.L. Laber, B.P. Epstein, and M.C. Taylor took a series of over 500 high-speed videos of common bloodletting mechanisms [2]. The set of videos include blood spatter formation due to a gunshot, blood spatter due to a blunt object such as a hammer, or blood drop formation from a single droplet and are located on the MFRC website [1]. In literature, the videos have been referred to before [3 –5], and are routinely used in bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) presentation and training classes.
Source: Forensic Science International - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Source Type: research