FSC239Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: General Idea, Skeletonization, Blunt Trauma
Document Summary
Crime-scene reconstruction method used to support a likely sequence of events at a crime scene by observing and evaluating physical evidence and witness statements. Satellite spatter irregularly shaped stains with jagged edges resulting from spatter on rough surfaces like concrete floor or wood. Angle of impact the acute angle formed between the path of a blood drop and the surface that it contacts. Impact spatter spatter produced when an object makes forceful contact with a source of blood. Spatter is projected outwards from the source the most common type of bloodstain. Forward spatter blood travelling away from the source, in the same direction from the force causing the spatter. Back spatter/ blow-back spatter blood projected backwards from a source. Potentially deposited on object or person who created the impact. Low velocity spatter consists of large separate drops with a diameter of 4 millimeters.
