1. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Lesson 1: Crime Scene Reconstruction
Part 1
March 9, 2015
Sanders

2. Crime Scene Reconstruction
The method used to support a likely sequence of events at a crime scene of physical evidence and statements made by individuals involved in the incident
evaluation
observation
Bloodstain Analysis

3. Physical Evidence
Physical evidence alone does not describe the incidents that occurred by it does support or contradict eyewitness accounts.
Physical evidence is the basis of crime scene reconstruction.
Bloodstain Analysis

4. Crime Scene Search
Law enforcement must carefully search crime scene in order to specifically reconstruct the crime scene.
Recall, only evidence found at the scene my be introduced to the case.
Bloodstain Analysis

5. Reconstruction of TWA Flight 800
Bloodstain Analysis

6. Reconstruction of TWA Flight 800
Through retrieval of key pieces of aircraft, scientists were able to determine the cause of the crash.
Bloodstain Analysis

7. Crime Scene Challenges
Crime scene analysts will have to sift through smoky char to reconstruct this crime scene.
Firematic activity can damage the crime scene itself.
Metro North Station, Valhalla
Bloodstain Analysis

8. Crime Scene Reconstruction Personnel
Crime scene reconstruction relies on the combined efforts of many personnel to recover evidence and to sort out the events surrounding the occurrence of a crime scene.
medical examiners
criminalists
law enforcement
Bloodstain Analysis