Unit 3:  Blood Spatter and Crime Scene Reconstruction

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Mastery Objectives / Critical Thinking Skills

• Explain how height and angle of impact are determined from blood spatter patterns.

• Describe the types of impact blood spatter patterns.

• Explain how the origin-of-impact is determined.
• Be able to identify and describe the characteristics of contact/transfer patterns, drip trail patterns, gunshot spatter, cast off spatter and arterial blood spatter.
• Using a sketch, demonstrate how a void pattern can be used to interpret a crime scene.
• Describe two methods for documenting blood stain pattern evidence. 

Presentation(s)

• Blood Spatter and Crime Scene Reconstruction.pptx 

Handouts

• 01 - UO - Crime scene analysis and blood spatter.doc
• 01 - UO - Crime scene analysis and blood spatter.pdf  
• 02 - Blood Type Simulated Crime Scene.doc 
• Blood Spatter - Activity 1.docx
• Blood Spatter - Activity 2.docx
• Blood Spatter - Activity 4.docx
• ASISTM Forensics Investigations F09.pdf  
• 07 - Desktop Blood Spatter Activity.docx  

Final Project Files 

If you want to learn more . . .

Outstanding animation showing droplet shape on contact and angle of impact droplet formation: