Keyword: "transfer stains"

Evaluation of Blood Deposition on Fabric: Distinguishing Spatter and Transfer Stains

Misty Holbrook

2010

The careful examination of blood stained clothing can potentially provide information regarding the movements and activities of the wearer during a bloodshed event. The goal of this study is to aid the bloodstain pattern analyst during such examinations. Spatter and transfer stains were created on eleven types of fabric used…

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High Speed Digital Video Analysis of Bloodstain Pattern Formation From Common Bloodletting Mechanisms

Terry L. Laber, Bart P. Epstein, Michael C. Taylor

2008

Working on the premise that an understanding of the dynamics of a bloodletting event is critical to the sound interpretation of the resultant bloodstain pattern, a set of over 500 individual high speed digital video clips of common bloodletting mechanisms has been assembled. These include single blood drop formation, impact…

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The Reliability of Current Methods of Sequencing Bloodstain Patterns

Terry L. Laber, Michael C. Taylor, Paul E. Kish

2014

Despite the potential value associated with determining the sequence of events from superimposed bloodstain patterns, no formal assessment of the reliability of current methods was found in the published literature. We present here a study of superimposed spatter/transfer patterns on three different substrate surfaces under conditions where the spatter pattern…

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