Front and Back Picture of Soaked-Through Bloodstain
The bloodstains, as forensic
scientists and chemists now know, are from real human
bleeding from real wounds on a real human body that came into
direct contact with the cloth. Immunological, fluorescence and
spectrographic tests as well as Rh and ABO typing of blood
antigens confirm this.
When the stains formed, the
man was lying on his back with his feet near one end of the
fourteen foot long, banner shaped piece of cloth. The cloth was
drawn over the top of his head and loosely draped over his face
and the full length of his body down to his feet. Many of the
stains have the distinctive forensic signature of clotting with
red corpuscles about the edge of the clot and a clear yellowish
halo of serum.
Mingled with these large
bloodstains are stains from a clear bodily fluid, perhaps
pericardial fluid or fluid from the pleural sac or pleural
cavity. This suggests that the man received a postmortem stabbing
wound in the vicinity of the heart.
See:
Ray Rogers' FAQ
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