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.

In general, bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) refers to the collection and subsequent forensic analysis investigation of the size, shape, and distribution patterns of bloodstains found at a crime ...

NEW YORK (CBS) Blood patterns at a crime scene have become a familiar, even indispensable element of criminal investigation. It wasn't always so. When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement ...

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, ...

The National Institute of Justice gave more than $1 million to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to study handwriting characteristics and bloodstain patterns, the BCA said Monday. These two ...

During the 2007 murder trial of music mogul Phil Spector, forensic experts for the defense and prosecution disagreed on how to interpret the blood spatter patterns on clothing worn by both Spector and ...