Blood stains analysis on clothes: a case report

Abstract

Some years ago a woman was found dead in her husband’s factory, with multiple head injuries. The crime scene showed a lot of blood stains, different in form and dimension. The woman’s husband was the first and only suspect of the murder. He was the first to reach the crime scene and a lot of blood was found on his clothes, while his shoes were clean. The suspect said he was dirty because of having trampled on the bloody floor and also because of having touched his wife’s bloody body. An analysis of the blood stains on the man’s clothes and their compatibility with the dynamic of the murder were requested by the judge during the trial. The possibility for the suspect of making himself dirty by embracing the dead corpse and/or by trampling the blood on the floor was investigated. The collected data were very useful for providing valuable information for the accurate reconstruction of the crime history