The toilet in our school has be transformed into a crime scene and we were given 5 different tubes of liquids with different colours. They were all in colours of pink, green, yellow, sky blue and cobalt blue. We were to make use of the blood splatter patterns and concepts we learnt in our previous lesson to create a crime scene and let our classmates analyse what exactly happened while the crime was taking place.
Firstly, we set up OUR group's crime scene near the sink and the mirror. This was the situation:
1.) A girl was in the toilet, standing in front of the mirror and sink grooming herself.
2.) She was oblivious to the fact that danger was lurking and a psycho killer was lurking around the corner.
3.) The psycho corner stepped into the toilet and started pacing towards her with a knife behind his back.
4.) The girl heard the guy's footsteps coming and she turns to her right and is shocked to see the guy.
5.) The guy advances towards her, whips out a knife from the back and slashes her from his right to his left in an upwards motion.
6.) Girl hurls body in the direction of the sink and mirror and kneels down on her knees due to immense pain, palms clutch onto wound due to great pain and then palms clutch onto the sink for support.
7.) Wound's blood smudges against the sink while girl kneels onto ground and thus smudges are created at the front of the sink.
8.) Wound's blood drips down tremendously causing a pool of blood to be gathered onto the ground.
9.) Slash blood splatter seen on sink and mirror.
Next, the OTHER group set up their crime scene and we were given the task to analyse the scene. This was what we came up with:
1.) Firstly, we think that the murderer grabbed the victim by the head and slammed her head into the wall, causing a big patch of blood to be formed on the wall, with blood dripping down to the ground.
2.) Then, the murderer grabbed the victim by the head once more and slammer her head into the wall, causing another big patch of blood to be formed on the wall, with blood ALSO dripping down to the ground. (initially, we thought that there may be another person involved since the blood colours used for the 2 blood splatters are different (yellow and blue), however we could not find any possible explanation for the other blood splatters present which indicated that there were 2 people injured, thus, we scraped the idea that 2 people were involved in the crime.)
3.) Judging by the position of the two blood splatters (for the head slams), we conclude that the victim was probably a short and petite person (most likely a girl) because the height of the blood splatter for the head slams was at a low height from the ground, probably around 1.4m.
4.) The girl was semiconscious and thus fell down and sat on the floor with a pool of blood on the ground.
5.) There were a few smudges around the pool of blood, indicating that the girl attempted to stand up to escape/ fight back. Especially since from the front there were two smudges pointing outwards, which may be caused by the legs of the victim.
Then they revealed the actual scenario to us!
1.) The guy got raped by the girl and out of anger, violence, the guy grabs and slams the girl's head into the wall. He slams the girl's head once more creating two blood splatters.
2.) Girl becomes unconscious and falls to the ground, the pool of blood is gathered on the ground from the blood dripping from the wall.
Using the concepts we learnt, the angle and direction of impact, the height of impact of the blood, the velocity of the impact and surface of impact, we interpreted the whole situation and matched our analysis to the actual scenario. For our group, it was mainly involving the observation of the shape of the blood pool and the direction at which the blood flows to. There was also blood dripping on blood, which indicates excess bleeding and a serious injury being sustained-> head injury. The small little blood splatters around the big patch of blood on the wall also indicates that the impact was huge and thus the force exerted by the murdered when slamming the victim's head against the wall, was large too.
PHOTOS + VIDEOS:
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| The blood splatters our group made :) Slash blood splatter, handprint and smudge marks are on the upper mahjong paper while the dripping blood is on the lower mahjong paper. |
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| Slash blood splatter and handprint. Smudge mark of the wound can be seen at the lower part of the mahjong paper. |
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| The dripping blood from the wound. |
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| Dripping blood from the wound up close. |
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| The bloody handprint made on the sink after clutching onto bloody wound. |
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| Slash blood splatter, handprints, and smudge marks :) |
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| An example of how we described our scenario to the class on foolscap through depictions :P |
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