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 ...

The work of North Carolina’s bloodstain pattern analysis program doesn’t have the stamp of approval from a national accrediting group, and the man taking over the State Bureau of Investigation wants ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa – Daniel Attinger paused before handing over a photo of a crime scene. “Are you bothered by the sight of blood?” There was good reason for his question: The photo showed blood pooled and ...