Unit 3: Blood Spatter and Crime Scene Reconstruction

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.

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