FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — The Brendan Banfield murder trial returned to court with a slow start Tuesday morning.

This story is Part 3 of an ongoing series that runs through Monday. To catch up on stories published so far, go to News-Leader.com/ConvictedByBlood. A record number ...

image: Blood spatters are hydrodynamic signatures of violent crimes, often revealing when an event occurred and where the perpetrator and victim were located, and researchers have worked toward better ...

A blood spatter analyst testified in the trial of Brendan Banfield on Tuesday. Congress clinches $1.2T funding deal for DHS, ...

David Camm lost 13 years of his life to eight drops of blood. In 2000, the Indiana state trooper was charged with murder after finding his wife and two children shot to death in their home. During the ...

One of the key figures in the long-running case of Michael Peterson in “The Staircase” is Duane Deaver, a blood spatter analyst who worked for North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation in 2002 ...

Critical bloodstain evidence that might not have been fully analyzed in the past now can be analyzed thanks to the speed and tenacity of the computer. Computers are affecting every phase of our lives ...

When "Dexter: New Blood" premieres on Showtime on Nov. 7 — the show's first new episodes since the original series ended in 2013 — the titular character will have a new name (Jim Lindsay) and a new ...

The man who says blood spatter on David Camm's T-shirt proves he slaughtered his family five years ago appears to have been caught in a lie during testimony at Camm's trial in Warrick County Wednesday ...