FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) — A blood spatter expert testified Tuesday that red ribbonlike stains on a murder victim’s hands indicated the blood was transferred from somewhere else, bolstering prosecutors’ claims that Brendan Banfield manipulated the body to frame the man for the murder of his wife.
In the final day of prosecution testimony, Iris Dalley Graff, a forensic analyst, said the bloodstains on Joseph Ryan’s hands showed that “there were different positions as the blood was wet and flowing.”
Graff, of Graff Investigative and Forensic Training, explained that some bloodstain patterns around Ryan were transfer stains, meaning they were transferred from one surface to another…