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Physicist Grandiose
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Jan 18, 2005 12:46 AM
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How should I put this? If you shoot an orange, you'll get a spatter pattern, too. As long as there is juice, the laws of physics say there will be a spatter pattern.
If the blood and everything else have been fully absorbed in the body tissues or dried up, then the spatter pattern will be smaller and not as "juicy" as... well, you know the rest.
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panda1
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Jan 6, 2005 2:06 PM
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Frozen blood would be damaged by the water forming ice crystals, so you would know that it had been previously frozen. Any checking under a microscope would give it away.
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Gooddog
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Sep 14, 2004 12:47 PM
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The blood spatter would still be minimal, though slightly more than spatter from a body that had not been frozen.
The freezing process would allow tissue to absorb and retain some water before being frozen solid. If a shot should be fired into the body shortly after thawing, this water would slightly increase the splatter. It's not an exact science, but the forensic specialist can make an educated guess as to how long the body had been thawed by measuring this spatter.
For every forensic specialist that would testify to the timeline in such a case, there is another who would testify that he/she is wrong.
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Zaphirah
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Feb 22, 2004 5:52 AM
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Hi, I'm not too familiar with forensics and such but I do have a question that I was hoping someone could help me with.
If a man is shot and put on ice for a year and a half, then defrosted and shot again, would there be any blood splatter?
This idea came to me while watching Crossing Jordan because they usually say that after a person is killed the blood loss is minimal because it stops flowing. But in one episode there was blood splatter from a corpse that had been on ice for 18 months.
Like I said, it was just a thought,
Zaph
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