If you are a fan of CSI or other forensic-investigation TV dramas, you could be forgiven for thinking that all the minute details of a violent crime can be deduced simply by looking at the pattern of ...

KENNEWICK -- Benton County sheriff's Detective Scott Runge studied strings he taped on a wall near a mock blood-covered crime scene and tried to figure out what happened. The strings were used to mark ...

A small team of researchers from the University of Illinois and Iowa State University has developed what they describe as a theoretical model for both interpreting and predicting blood-spatter that ...