The largest-ever black-box study on the accuracy of bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA), a widely used forensic technique, has found concerning error rates and ...

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, ...

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 Netflix’s “The Staircase,” Duane Deaver, a blood spatter analyst who worked for North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation, testified that blood stains at the bottom of author Michael ...

As more people seek to go where no man has gone before, researchers are exploring how forensic science can be adapted to extraterrestrial environments. A new study highlights the behavior of blood in ...

Danielle Yardeni raises her bloody hammer after smashing it into someone’s head. “I swing my hand back, and I do it again,” she announces, once more bringing the weapon down on a hapless imaginary ...

Together with the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), the police in Belgium have developed a bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) tool to analyze blood spatter at a crime scene in less than ...

SCRANTON – An expert who reviewed blood-pattern evidence in the Jason Dominick homicide case testified Thursday it alone cannot point to who fired the shot that killed Frank Bonacci five years ago.

A timeline of a niche, unproven discipline that gained a hold in the American justice system. A timeline of a niche, unproven discipline that gained a hold in the American justice system. By LEORA ...