{"id":900,"date":"2015-11-06T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2015-11-06T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:25:03","slug":"blood-will-tell-a-blood-spatter-analysis-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Blood Will Tell: A Blood Spatter Analysis Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eduard Piotrowski of Poland&#8217;s University of Krakow published the first major\u00a0blood spatter study in 1895, but its impact was limited to a few inventive European sleuths like\u00a0German chemist Paul Jeserich and French forensic scientist Victor Balthazard. The American legal system did not adopt spatter analysis as evidence until the landmark case of <em>State of Ohio v. Samuel Sheppard<\/em>, and the field did not truly take off until the 1970s, after forensics expert Herbert MacDonell published his influential <em>Flight Characteristics of Human Blood and Stain Patterns<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Blood spatter analysis has undergone major refinements in methods and language since then, including a recent and growing shift toward incorporating computers. I discuss several of these shifts in my 2015 update of Shanna Freeman&#8217;s 2007 article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/bloodstain-pattern-analysis.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eduard Piotrowski of Poland&#8217;s University of Krakow published the first major\u00a0blood spatter study in 1895, but its impact was limited to a few inventive European sleuths like\u00a0German chemist Paul Jeserich and French forensic scientist Victor Balthazard. The American legal system did not adopt spatter analysis as evidence until the landmark case of State of Ohio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood Will Tell: A Blood Spatter Analysis Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,60,76,66,4,290,74,3,13],"tags":[81,1044,1043,1040,1039,1036,1046,80,1045,1047,1035,1041,1042,1037,1038],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-forensics","category-history","category-law-2","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-aerodynamics","tag-area-of-convergence","tag-area-of-origin","tag-blowback","tag-cast-off","tag-clot","tag-dingo","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-lindy-chamberlain","tag-samuel-sheppard","tag-skeletonize","tag-stippling","tag-stringing","tag-target","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}