Page 2 - Back Spatter News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Dr. john nordby: ok, i'm not finding any blood of any sort, whether it's-- josh mankiewicz: a blood spatter expert, named dr. john nordby, was called to testify in support of that theory. according to doctor nordby, the car's interior should have been covered in blood if that was where russel douglas had been shot. dr. john nordby: the shooting seemed, to me, like it did not occur in this vehicle because there are empty spots where you would expect blood to be. permission to approach the witness, your honor? judge: yes. josh mankiewicz: on cross-examination, prosecutor banks challenged the def...

Prosecutor banks challenged the defense's only expert witness pointing out that in his written report on the case dr. nordby had cited the movie pulp fiction as the kind of example of the kind of blood spatter he would expect to see in russel douglas' car. >> the two characters in the film were facing in front and they actually got back spatter, the bullet went toward the backseat, but the spatter went through the front so that's the illustration i was meaning to convey. >> so you chose to rely on an illustration from a fictional movie produced in hollywood to help describe this scenario? corr...

>> on cross-examination prosecutor banks challenged the defense's only expert witness pointing out that in his written report on the case dr. nordby had cited the movie "pulp fiction" as the kind of example of the kind of blood spatter he would expect to see in russel douglas' car. >> the two characters in the film were facing in front and they actually got back spatter, the bullet went toward the backseat, but the spatter went through the front, so that's the illustration i was meaning to convey. >> so you chose to rely on an illustration from a fictional movie produced in hollywood to help d...

Would have gone up, that is called back spatter. it will come from the entrance wound and the exit wound, the blood would have gone down in the pillow and mattress where the bullet would have gone gone as well. >> do you believe the bullet that caused the hole was the fatal shot? >> no, there has to have been a second shot fired. >> ncis records confirm the mattress and bedding were destroyed as a biological hazard in 48 hours. his helmet bag, that he used as a brief case was missing and never recovered. >> that bag turning up, it's kind of baggage that he will keep his most personal important...

Stallman is one of them? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: michael maloney reconstructed the crime scene frame by frame. found too many things that forensically didn't add up. >> all these things that we're talking about now are indicative of staging. >> reporter: he says the bullet wound suggests stallman was not laying down as the report concluded but getting up, his head turned away when the fatal shot was fired. >> that puts his head in this position when he received -- >> blood would have gone up. >> reporter: it is called back spatter. the exit wound, blood would have gone into the pillow and ...