From: Jasper
Date: 28 Aug 2008
Time: 02:47:32 PM
Bob — Blood has three characteristics combined with spacing that apply to a macroscopic (without a microscope) study of the blood drops on Rockingham that were photographed or described in the O.J. criminal trial testimony; size, shape and stability. ...............To start with, let’s take these characteristics one at a time: ................SIZE http://smartfellowspress.com/Animations/Animations.htm (search “tiny”) — According to all of the literature you will find on the subject, the size of blood drops in a series falling freely from a human body indicates the height from which it was dropped and the size of the wound it came from. The larger the drops and the closer together they are, the larger the wound had to be to make them. The blood drops identified in as O.J.’s “on Bundy” were of a size spaced closely enough together to show that they came from a deep gash – like the one O.J. had on his finger when he returned to Los Angels from Chicago. But the blood drops Dennis Fung noted, took close-up photos of and collected on Rockingham could only have come from a superficial cut. They were so small that Henry Lee made a point of calling them “droplets” instead of drops. ...............SHAPE — Regardless of the blood drop’s size, if it falls from a body in motion it fans out like an oak leaf in the direction that the person with the cut was moving. A blood drop from a stationary person has a round shape indicating no direction of travel. The shape of the blood drops identified in the lab as O.J.’s that were supposedly taken from Bundy (the chain of custody was broken so there is no evidence that they DID come from Bundy) showed little or no direction. The tight cluster of three blood droplets in O.J.’s foyer had round shapes. This was defiantly O.J.’s blood. The shape indicates he was standing still when he made them. The cluster indicates that they were deposited at the same time with a sudden drop of his hand. .............. STABILITY — Blood transfers readily from one surface to another only before it is completely dry. A blood drop on a hard, dry surface solidifies within minutes of when it fell. That’s why the blood collector has to soak a dry blood stain with water to transfer enough of it to a cloth swatch to test in a lab. You can, therefore, walk all over dried blood without distorting the size or shape of the original stain or getting it on your shoe unless your shoe is wet and you stand on it long enough to liquefy it. ............. The big debate about the Rockingham blood drops was not about the ones Fung documented (he photographed two that he didn’t collect) but the numerous blood drops on the left of the driveway that Fung neither photographed nor collected. These were the blood drops Roberts laid down markers for and Fung picked up. Fung acknowledged that they were there and a June 13 video shows Det. LeFall bending down and looking at them near the gate. There had to be something VERY WRONG with them not only because of what Fung did and didn’t do with them but because of what Vannatter said about the blood droops he saw “going out” of the gate without mentioning the ones that could have been made only by someone going in – or putting them there with an eye-dropper. This is where things get really interesting... –Jasper