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Karen had suffered a severe injury to her spinal column. >> one of the stab wounds goes and partially severs the spinal cord at the level of the eighth thoracic vertebral body. >> which meant she would have been partially paralyzed, and stab wounds to her pectoral muscles and her aorta led the medical examiner to conclude she was unable to write anything on the wall. >> she would not have had enough blood pressure and enough blood volume to repeatedly dip her finger in repeatedly because her fingers aren't a fountain pen. her finger wasn't bleeding. so, she was already dead when those were wri...

>> the tbi lab did examine the rustler blue jeans in 1984 and they did determine there was some blood on there. however, as to the type of stains that were present and to the possible cause, they did not make any determination at that time. >> under a magnifying glass, crime scene reconstructionist jerry findlay found tiny drops of blood embedded in the fabric, about 1/32 of an inch in diameter. it was medium-velocity impact spatter, the kind usually produced when someone is hit with a blunt object. >> medium velocity is an instrument being wielded by a human, for example, a baseball bat or a ...

Would have just been on the top of the weave, but rather down -- driven into the weave much more consistent with impact spatter. >> the blood spatter was the same size and shape as one would expect to find after inflicting a beating with a blunt object. dna testing of this blood revealed it was cathy lamb's blood. >> we had impact spatters at the scene on the wall, and we also had impact spatters on the left interior thigh area of the dark jeans of jeffrey lamb. >> this was definitive proof jeffrey lamb struck the fatal blows. and blood spatter expert stewart james found one more thing. >> he ...

And partially severs the spinal cord at the level of the eighth thoracic vertebral body. >> which meant she would have been partially paralyzed, and stab wounds to her pectoral muscles and her aorta led the medical examiner to conclude she was unable to write anything on the wall. >> she would not have had enough blood pressure and enough blood volume to repeatedly dip her finger in repeatedly because her fingers aren't a fountain pen. her finger wasn't bleeding. so, she was already dead when those were written. >> and blood spatter experts found evidence that whoever wrote on the wall did so ...

James examined the jeans. section by section under a stereo microscope. >> well, the dark color of the jeans certainly made it more difficult to see blood. >> but at 60 times magnification, james could see things invisible to the naked eye. deep within the fabric on the jean's left leg near the inside of the thigh, james saw tiny specs of what appeared to be blood. >> the suspected blood stains were actually down within the weave and between the weave of the fabric, which indicated to me that these stains were not the result of transfer, which would have just been on the top of the weave, but ...