The Nancy Kissel Case - Part 20
(SCMP; no link) Blood indicates no struggle, court told. By Polly Hui. July 12, 2005.
From the Chinese-language media
(Ming Pao via Yahoo!
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Retired government chemist Lun Tze-shan testified yeterday that on November
8, 2003, he went to the scene of the incident to analyse the blood pattern
distibution. He determined that the blood splattering pattern were
concentrated mainly at the end of the bed. Therefore he believed that
the attack should happen at the lower position at the end of the bed . At
the time Robert Kissel wa either sitting or lying down.
Since there were no blood stains on the walls farther away from the end of
the bed or on the ceiling, he believes that the perpetrator did not use an
elongated weapon. Furthermore, there were no blood smears on the wall
that might indicated a struggle, so he believes that the deceased did not
offer any struggle during the attack.
In addition, the police found a cushion that contained large amounts of
blood from the deceased. The blood spread from one side onto the other
side. Dr. Lun pointed out that when a person continuously hits an
object containing blood, the blood will splatter all over and that is
consistent with the pattern on the cushion.