Doctors investigate the murder through blood splatter.
Doctor profession icon; Doctor collecting blood splatter evidence; full-body front-view of Doctor.
Their blood splatter kit allows them to collect blood evidence from the crime scene and compare it against blood splatter produced by different weapons.
When a murder occurs, blood splatter is left around the body. A Doctor can use their splatter kit at the crime scene to document that evidence.
But knowing what the blood looks like isn't enough. Doctors needs to figure out which weapon created it.
Different weapons produce different blood splatter patterns. During the investigation, Doctors can purchase weapons from market stalls and take them back to the hospital laboratory. There, they can swing the weapon against a chunk of meat to produce its blood splatter pattern. That pattern is added to their blood splatter kit and labelled with the weapon that created it.
By comparing the pattern from the murder with the patterns produced by different weapons, Doctors can determine which weapon may have been used to commit the crime.
And because weapons can be connected to other evidence found throughout Whitechapel, that information can give the rest of the investigation another way to narrow down the suspects.
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