Mastery Objectives / Critical Thinking Skills

• List the main types of surfaces and the pattern of blood stain formation at a crime scene
• Describe the types of impact blood spatter patterns
• Explain how the origin-of-impact is determined
• Be able to identify contact/transfer patterns, drip trail patterns, gunshot spatter, cast off spatter and arterial blood spatter
• Using a sketch, illustrate a void pattern
• Describe two methods for documenting blood stain pattern evidence. 

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