People. Your FACE. CSI Knowledge: How Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Works (Infographic) : Discovery Channel. You know how it goes: Right before Horatio Caine puts on his sunglasses and throws off a corny one-liner as the The Who screams, the forensics team is looking at a blood splatter on the wall and determining that it was a gunshot wound from close range by a six-foot tall, left handed shooter who wore sandals and had a limp.
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