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Test your bloodstain analysis skills

25 February 2009

Bloodstain analysts claim to be able to identify how a bloodstain was created simply by looking at it. Can you do as well as the experts?

Question 1



How was this bloodstain created?



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Answer 1



Blood dripping into an existing pool of blood.

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(Image: spekulator, stock.xchng)

Question 2



a) How was this bloodstain created?

b) In which direction has the blood moved, if at all?

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Answer 2



Blood flowing down a vertical surface like a wall.

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Question 3



How was this bloodstain created?



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Answer 3



Blood stains/spatter produced by a gunshot.

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Question 4



How was this bloodstain created?

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Answer 4



Dripping blood, eg. from an injured hand.

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Question 5



a) How was this bloodstain created?

b) In which direction has the blood moved, if at all?

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Answer 5



Wet drop of blood that has been smeared or wiped to the right before it is dry.

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Question 6



How was this bloodstain created?



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Answer 6



Bloody footprint.

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Question 7



How was this bloodstain created?



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Answer 7



Pool of blood from any source close to the ground.

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Question 8



a) How was this bloodstain created?

b) In which direction has the blood moved, if at all?

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Answer 8



A blood-covered object moving across a surface from top to bottom and then left to right.

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Question 9



a) How was this bloodstain created?

b) In which direction has the blood moved, if at all?

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Answer 9



Blood-covered hair coming in contact with a surface. Similar patterns could be created by a cockroach or fly moving over drops of blood and then trailing it.

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Question 10



How was this bloodstain created?

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Answer 10



Blood flung at a flat surface.

How many did you get right?

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