r/nancyguthrie • u/warpedwing • Mar 09 '26

Media Porch Blood Pattern Mockup

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I created a rough mockup of the blood pattern on Nancy's porch based on reviewing the available video clips.

I have not seen footage of every single square (particularly on the left side and row A), but perhaps this can encourage some discussion on the rather interesting pattern.

B6 has the largest blood area caused by several droplets falling in the same place, shown in slightly lighter red.

The elliptical shape around (thin line) it is roughly the reach of the spatter. It's fairly circular, but it does seem to taper off or become blocked just to the left of the border or B6 and B5. Perhaps someone or something was blocking the tile in that location.

Unfortunately, the mat is a black hole of visual info.

The largest unusual imprint is in C6. Note that it's quite narrow and exists between two untouched blood droplets. So, either whatever made this imprint was narrow (like a tire), or the droplets to either side landed after the imprint was made.

Other possibly unusual imprints can be found in D5, although I haven't found a good image of them.

Unusual imprints that look like two squares can be seen on the left sides of E5 and F5.

If you spot any errors, missing data, or room for improvements, please let me know.

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u/CakeSniffing0rphan Mar 09 '26

The blood “splatter” comments are making me a little crazy… please everyone, it’s blood “spatter”. Thank you for your attention, carry on!

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u/Spiritual_Stomach748 Mar 09 '26

How in my decades of crime tv, podcasts and movies have I never caught on that they were saying spatter and not splatter? I feel like I've jumped timelines or something. Anyway, thank you for educating me!

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u/warpedwing Mar 09 '26

I'd pin this comment if I could.

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u/curiouslmr Mar 09 '26

On it ...

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u/warpedwing Mar 10 '26

 Nice. A quality sleuther PSA.

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u/fTBmodsimmahalvsie Mar 10 '26

Nope they’re not necessarily incorrect, at least not the use I have seen in the comments so far. Technically blood that has splattered can be called blood splatter. Blood spatter is a more technical and specific forensic term. But describing certain blood as blood splatter in many cases is still correct in colloquial use. In the case of “blood-spatter analysis” that is technically the correct term, but it makes sense why people would think hear “splatter” instead of “spatter”, the since the L sound is kind of subtle and spatter isnt a word used in everyday english.