Jeffrey Gentry

I hope we find her safe and sound.

So when I look at this blood, I, of course, any blood at a crime scene is always concerning.

I mean, you should take all precautions if you find blood at a crime scene.

It is a tremendous amount of evidence that's in the blood.

Not only can it tell you events that happened, but then, of course, you have the possibility to get DNA.

But when I look at these blood patterns, I'm not overly concerned.

So you're exactly right.

These are passive blood drops.

They are drip stains, a little bit of a drip trail.

And then there's a blood into blood pattern.

A blood into blood pattern is when blood is dripping from height into a blood source.

And it creates that neat little pattern of drip stains with the little satellite spatter around it.

So this would indicate, one, that this is not a major injury.

Somebody of that age can get skin tears very easily in their arms, on their hands, and those are going to bleed quite a bit.

But it also indicates that this person is upright.

They are stationary for some period of time, but then there's also movement as well with the drip trail.

So nothing that I'm seeing would indicate that

One, this person has a traumatic injury, like a gunshot wound or a stab wound, like projected blood patterns.

You mentioned cast off from a weapon.

You don't see impact spatter.