Reconstructing the sequence of events leading up to a murder could become easier and more precise thanks to a new system for producing a high-resolution 3D map of a crime scene. A post-mortem can shed ...

A defense expert on blood pattern analysis said a bloodstain found on Dave Laut's cheek was caused when Laut's head was moved. Stuart James, founder of James and Associates Forensic Consultants Inc.

Scientists are working to put more fluid dynamics behind the bloodstain pattern analysis used at crime scenes. They are developing instruments and methods to produce, study and analyze bloodstains.

Anyone who’s a fan of TV police procedurals and true crime knows that many cases hinge on blood pattern evidence. That’s nothing new. The first documented use of bloodstain pattern analysis, or BPA, ...