Blood Is Thicker Than Water: An Overview of Blood Spatter Analysis

As Dexter and CSI fans and most other people know, a crime scene may involve several of the following:
--blood droplets of various shapes and sizes
--blood sprays, spurts, and splashes
--blood flows, pools, and transfers
--dried blood
--projected blood
--cast-off blood

Blood spatter analysis uses this blood to recreate a crime and pursue a guilty verdict for the criminal and justice for the victim.

So where did this relatively new area of forensics come from? How does a person become a blood spatte...