Introduction -- Introduction -- The American founding father of bloodstain pattern evidence - the Kirk years -- Understanding blood behavior -- Trigonometry in bloodstain pattern evidence, math use in question -- Case applications -- Timing is everything -- The Alexander Lindsay second inquiry -- Who was the shooter? -- Traffic salutations in America -- The body on the porch -- Lil' ol' guy who woke up dead -- Self-defense staging homicide by gunshot -- Crime scene artwork, staged assault -- Curiosity caught the murderer -- Informant execution -- Lack of the crime lab involvement -- On duty officer involved shooting -- Three down and still missed intended victim -- Perfect stories -- Family elimination -- A tragedy of errors homicide -- The accomplice wouldn't plea -- Magic bullet in alleged drive-by shooting -- Perry Mason is a myth -- Hidden face, blunt force assault -- Body in the bathtub -- Bloodstain pattern evidence interactions with other forensic disciplines -- Bloodstain pattern evidence and law enforcement -- The forensic crime lab and bloodstain pattern evidence -- DNA and bloodstain pattern evidence -- Pathology and bloodstain pattern evidence : the predominant good, occasional bad, and rare ugly -- Bloodstain pattern evidence and the law -- Experience with training in bloodstain pattern evidence -- Preparations for bloodstain pattern workshops -- Spatter group exercises -- Exercises with groups other than spatters (nonspatter groups) -- Special projects, practical exams, and mock crime scenes -- The future of bloodstain pattern evidence -- Research in bloodstain pattern evidence -- Summation -- Flow diagram -- An objective approach to spatter classification based on SAADD -- Spatter classification table -- Twenty-five bloodspatters to practice measuring -- Tips on sequencing pattern categories -- Some random values for future research.