Covering a range of fundamental topics essential to modern forensic investigation, the fifth
edition of the landmark text Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative …

Background Blood is one of the most common pieces of evidence encountered at the crime
scene. Due to the viscous nature of blood, unique bloodstain patterns are formed which …

We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of sheet
evolution, expansion and retraction, under unsteady fragmentation upon drop impact on a …

Formation of the brain tissue backspatter after penetrating gunshots to the head is preceded
and driven by formation and evolution of the bullet channel, which is filling with air and/or …

Understanding the underlying hydrodynamics of impinging blood droplets and finding out
the physical parameters determining the bloodstain characteristics are of great importance …

For bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA), interpreting statistically reliable data on a crime scene
resulting from gunshots is a great challenge. This is due to various uncertainties, including …

High-speed videos of blood spatter due to a gunshot taken by the Ames Laboratory Midwest
Forensics Resource Center (MFRC)[1] are analyzed. The videos used in this analysis were …

There has been enormous interest in the production of fluids with rheological properties
similar to those of real blood over the last few years. Application fields range from …

Trajectory reconstruction in bloodstain pattern analysis is currently performed by assuming
that blood drop trajectories are straight along directions inferred from stain inspection …

Blood backspatter pattern analysis provides important evidence in firearm-related crime
scenes. The mechanisms behind particular patterns have attracted significant recent …