On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in her home on the shore of Lake Erie. Sam Sheppard, the husband, denied any involvement in the murder but was presumed the killer. There were two pieces of evidence that came into question with regards to blood spatter. In the 1956 trial Gerber, the coroner, claimed that an outline in blood on one of the pillows resembled that of a surgical tool but was unable to identify the surgical tool. Gerber would have concluded this observation by believing the bloodstain pattern was a transfer pattern. It was concluded however, that the result of the blood stain on the pillow came from another pillow overlapping it. The second piece of evidence was on Sheppard’s watch. Sheppard claimed that the blood found on his watch came from when he checked Marilyn’s pulse when he found her. An investigator could determine whether or not Sheppard was the offender by looking at the bloodstain patterns on the watch. An impact spatter is blood droplets that come outwards that creates a bloodstain pattern when an object forcefully makes contact with the source of blood. If Sheppard did kill Marilyn the blood on his watch would have been from a back spatter. It was determined by Dr. Paul Kirk that the blood on the watch looked like transfer blood. It was determined by Dr. Kirk that there was some “tadpole-shaped spots” …show more content…
It was determined that both Sam and Marilyn Sheppard were grouped to have Type A blood but two spots that were found were not Type A. The first spot which was the largest blood spot in the bedroom was found on the closet door near Marilyn’s bed. The second spot of blood was on the knee of Sam Sheppard’s trouser pants. Both spots of blood were examined and determined that they were Type O blood. Dr. Kirk in court testified that the blood that was found on the closet door did not belong to either Sam or
While investigations were going on to determine how victims died, there was a discovery of fibers on the victims’ bodies. The goal of the investigator was to determine if any fibers in Wayne Williams home or person matched those fibers found on the victims. Williams denied killing
The blood looked like it was coming out of Ms. Garcia's head and there was a table lying by her head as well. There were some pills and a syringe lying by Ms. Garcia´s stomach area. Additionally, there were tennis shoes with footprints on them and some white powder was found at the crime scene as well. The team then analyzed all of the evidence to figure out Ms.Garcia's manner and cause of death. The analysis of each evidence took the team one step closer to finding out how exactly Ms. Garcia
This is an attempt to unravel the tangle by an objective and empirical examination of information from crime scene and post mortem examination of the victims. Pre-digested information such as speculative newspaper reports, and statements from witnesses other than those called in a professional capacity have been avoided since theirs is largely subjective testimony that confounds more than it informs.
Marilyn Reese Sheppard was a rich Cleveland physician. She was the wife of Dr, Samuel Sheppard. She was born in April 1923, in Cleveland Ohio. Marilyn was murdered on July 4th 1954 in Bay Village Ohio. She was found in the couples lake house brutally beat to death with about 20 to 30 blows to the head. Her son, Sam Reese, who was seven years old, was in the room next to his mothers during the murder. Her husband Samuel was sleeping on the couch that night when he woke to what he thought was his wife calling his name. He went to the bedroom and found his wife being beaten by a “bushy haired man”. The husband had been badly beaten as well. He claimed he had “grappled with one or two men” before he had been knocked out. He had sustained severe
Upon completion of the report, it is clear that an examination of the unresolved murder is necessary. No stone will be left unturned; no avenues left unexplored. To seek justice for Marilyn Monroe and her family, an in-depth analysis must be conducted in order to break down the data and identify a possible killer.
There have been many influential people in my life, but Marilyn Macfarlane is my role model. I started taking riding lessons when I was seven years old at Marilyn’s farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky. It is a saddleseat farm with saddlebred, hackney ponies, friesians and many other breeds. Marilyn started teaching riding lessons at the age of sixteen in West Virginia before purchasing Walnut Way. It is hard to tell how many riders and others she has influenced through her work and love for horses. To me she is set apart from others because not only does she teach you how to ride, but horse care and horsemanship are her top priority. Accomplished would be an understatement, Marilyn has paved the way for everyone in the saddlebred industry she was
We can determine from the shapes of the drops of blood what degree a person was killed from, from what angle and the severity of the
Imagine walking into a crime scene and the first thing you see is blood covering the floor, walls and ceiling. Most people wouldn’t realize the type of valuable and important information that this evidence holds in a crime scene. Those who are in the career of bloodstain pattern analysis are able to take a look at the bloodstain patterns and unveil many important factors of how the crime occurred. Bloodstain pattern analysis is employed worldwide by scientists, police officials and medics. The International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts is the organization for bloodstain pattern analysts and offers various forms of
I also decided to continue this project because I would like to become more knowledgeable about the job of Blood Spatter Analysts, and its extreme importance in forensics and criminal cases. This project is intended to educate myself and other students on the importance of blood splatter and Blood Spatter Analysts. Hypothesis If I throw the blood-filled
Sherlock Holmes was yet another bright example of what needed to be fixed along the lines of what Forensics was at the time. Alas, After Sherlock’s statement, there was already one reliable way to test blood used by Henry Letheby, a professor of chemistry at the London Hospital, earlier than Holmes in 1864, conducted through the celebrated murder trial of Franz Muller. Even this was a huge stepping stone to the evolution of forensic science, yet again through the Great Detective, setting a base line of what is needed to continue.
Here we cotton swabbed every inch of clothing on the victims and checked if there was a presence of blood. Using the Kastle-Meyer blood test we add drops of Ehtyl alcohol which increase the sensitivity of hemoglobin and then added a few drops of phenolphthalein which eliminates oxygen, if it’s exposed to oxygen then it will turn pink. When exposed to oxygen it means hemoglobin is present. After sterilizing all cotton swabs and repeating the procedure we noticed that reveille fur and maroon flash shirt had a presence of blood and the bikerman had no blood.
Throughout any Crime Science Investigation episode, well-credited detectives find themselves observing and analyzing certain evidence (also known as the procession of forensic analysis) in an attempt to find out what occurred and who’s the main aggressor. This particular show is effective in the sense that it vividly incorporates different forensic techniques from either doing a helicopter light scan to critically analyzing a blood sample. Nonetheless, in the episode, “Crate and Burial” two different crime scenes were utilized as a mode of trying to incorporate the scientific process from observation into reaching a conclusion (or in this case, being able to narrow down who were the prime aggressors). Several conclusions, that were
Blood spatter interpretation is useful because it allows you to reconstruct the crime scene. This statement is very true and holds a lot of weight. By examining the size, shape, distribution and location of bloodstains, forensic analysts are able to form opinions about what did or did not happen in a crime. Biology, physics and mathematics are all major principles the blood stain pattern analysis uses to assists investigators in answering valuable questions in an investigation Biology is the behavior of blood; physics encompasses cohesion, capillary action and velocity; and mathematics includes the geometry, distance, and angle of blood spatter and stains. Interpretation of bloodstain patterns from a crime scene can help determine evidence
The detectives in this case pursued collecting detailed evidence in multiple areas of the home. They detected broken windows, open windows, open doors and physical evidence with fingerprints associated. The team asked the interrogated the immediately instantly, had the parents to write a note to compare against the ransom note. They found the murder weapons inside the home with fingerprints, boot prints, and some pubic hair on the blanket that the little girl was wrapped in. These criminal investigators made significant progress and discoveries at the crime scene but they failed to follow protocol completely.
Moving forward to questions of blood spatter interpretation, historically a subjective area of practice, the work of Trombka et al. (2002) sheds important light on how computerized analysis can now lead to the automation of many elements of blood spatter analysis. This is incredibly beneficial, for this particular CSI technique, because of the fact that computerized analysis brings about the type of parsimony, associated with rigorous hard sciences, which increases a discipline’s credibility in a court-of-law. Indeed, and because computerized spatter analysis will inevitably bring about greater reliability in spatter analysis, inasmuch as cases will now be analyzed in identical ways by different analysts, the discipline’s probative relevance to court cases is likely to be increased dramatically.