- By Eric Rogell
You
know how it goes: Right before Horatio Caine puts on his sunglasses and
throws off a corny one-liner as the The Who screams, the forensics team
is looking at a blood splatter on the wall and determining that it was a
gunshot wound from close range by a six-foot tall, left handed shooter
who wore sandals and had a limp.READ MORE: Whisky, Buried in Antarctic Ice for 100 Years, is Finally Ready for You to Drink
Far fetched? Maybe not. You’d be surprised at the amount of detail a simple blood spatter can reveal. The folks at Forensic Nursing have put together a guide to Blood Pattern Analysis for budding CSIs, so the next time you stumble across a crime scene you’ll be able to tell if the spatter is from a blunt force trauma with a baseball bat, or a wounded perp on the run.
READ MORE: 7 Tips for Surviving a Shark Attack
Infographic courtesy of ForensicNursng.org
No comments:
Post a Comment