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Read "An Illustrative Homicide Case Involving Blood Patterns" in your text, and review the included photos of evidence.

Looking at the bloodstain patterns on the husband's clothing, and considering what you have learned about bloodstain patterns, are the patterns consistent with his story? If you do not think they are, why not? If your opinion is one that believes they add credibility to his story, document your reasoning based on the evidence.

Based on the blood pattern evidence shown in the photos, provide your interpretation as to what might have happened in this case.

The body of your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from this week's required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

Case Illustration: An Illustrative Homicide Case Involving BloodPatterns

A man and his wife were living separately, but had not yet divorced. One day, thepolice received a call from the husband frantically asking for help, saying that hiswife had been attacked and badly injured in her apartment, and that they shouldget there immediately. Police and paramedics responded.

The wife was lying on the kitchen floor bleeding profusely from a stab wound tothe chest. She had other knife wounds on her body. There was blood in the livingroom as well, but not as much as in the kitchen. Paramedics quickly treated thevictim and took her to a hospital where she died from her wounds.

The medicalexaminer noted that the fatal wound was a stab wound to the chest through herheart at a slightly upward angle. Two nearly identical knives were at the scene,one on the living room sofa and another on the kitchen floor. They were serratededge kitchen knives and both had blood on them.

After the paramedics removed the wounded victim, the police took pictures,examined the scene, and interviewed the husband who had called them. He hadbloodstains all over his clothing, as shown on the manikin in the following images.The police later seized his clothing as evidence.

A manikin wearing a jacket with blood stains.(left) Overall view clothing; (center) Close up view leftside; (right) Back of jacketA manikin wearing pants with blood stains.(left) Pant legs; (center) Close up left pant leg; (right)Close up left pant leg cuff

The husband told the police that he had been at his own apartment when hisestranged wife called him, very upset, and said that someone was trying to breakin, so he should come immediately. When he arrived at her apartment, the doorwas locked and he no longer had a key, so he broke a front window and climbedthrough.

A front window was, indeed, broken, and most of the shattered glasswas inside the apartment, indicating that the window had been broken from theoutside. The husband said he found his wife stabbed and bleeding, and that hehad cradled her in his arms trying to comfort and help her, which is how the bloodgot onto his clothing. Right after that, he said he called the police.

All blood samples were analyzed and found to match the victim, not theestranged husband. Sometimes if a person has a victim's blood on his clothing, itprovides evidence against him. But in this case, the husband gave an explanationfor the blood on his clothing.

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