David Rivers and his students are researching how to help law enforcement identify real blood stains from fly contaminants at crime scenes. Photo: TNS
The victim lay across the doorway of a home in Mount Airy, Maryland, a 12-gauge shotgun blast through his chest. The suspect had called in a confession, and the evidence was clear. But that day in April 1999, police puzzled over dark stains on a wall far from the man’s body.
“It didn’t make sense,” said Mitchell Dinterman, a forensic investigator. “These were all the way across the room.”
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