Jeffrey Gentry

These are all large volume stains that are going straight down, indicating that that person was either walking or stationary, but they're upright.

The other thing that I look for is why isn't there blood on the doorknob?

Absolutely.

So what we're looking at, I'm looking at the photograph right now.

There is a drip trail.

So those are individual circular blood stains that obviously fell from height.

So this person is upright.

There is nothing at all to indicate that they were dragged.

There is nothing at all to indicate that they were on the ground and bleeding.

You don't see any blood pools.

So that gives me hope that this person is alive.

The drip stains and the blood in the blood patterns, that's one of the most common patterns you see at any scene just because usually somebody's upright, they realize that they're bleeding and they're walking around either trying to get help or going from one point to another.

That's exactly what you'd expect if somebody has, say, a minor injury and they're kind of standing in the same spot, kind of moving around, but then a lot of times people are stepping in their own blood.

Or the suspect is stepping in their blood.

So I hope the investigators are picking up on that and looking for footwear impressions or what were the suspects possibly wearing?

The good thing about her possibly bleeding, too, is the fact that her blood is not going to only be at this scene, but whatever vehicle she was taken in, the blood is going to be in that vehicle as well.

Because of blood pattern like this, considering that she might be taking anticoagulant medications, it's not going to stop bleeding right away.

It's going to continue to bleed.

And so that gives you the possibility of a forensic link from the crime scene to the suspect vehicle.

But again, I don't see anything here that stands out as overly concerning regarding death.