Discussions of evidence found in blood-spatter patterns and in the DNA of blood samples became standard, if not appetizing, dinner-table talk, and armchair criminalists second-guessed officials ...

For example, lab technicians may look at photographs of blood splatter patterns and conduct ballistics tests on bullets found at the crime scene to determine the direction from which a shot was fired.

Is there a pattern of behaviour that makes a person ... before a retrial in 1966 acquitted him based largely on forensic blood spatter testimony. The case became one of the most famous and ...