What is High Velocity Blood Spatter?
You have heard it on the CSI TV shows but wondered what exactly do they mean by high velocity blood spatter? The focus of this article is to explain in further detail what high velocity blood spatter is. Whenever an object strikes the victim at a speed greater than 100 feet per second, high velocity blood spatter is the result. This kind of spatter tends to be very small and measures less than 1 mm in diameter. This spatter tends to be mist-like as though you took a spray bottle of red paint and sprayed a mist of paint on the wall. A speeding bullet could create a high velocity blood spatter pattern. Only around entrance and exit wounds do these patterns show up. Blood acts a bit differently whether the bullet is entering the body or leaving. Back spatter refers to spatter associated with an entrance wound. Sometimes back spatter is also known as blowback spatter, meaning that blood droplets travel in a direction opposite the direction of the bullet. Many times in point blank range sho
