How do I do NSFW or spoiler? Do not click on this link if you don't want to see blood spatter (not meant specifically for you, MassGuy, of course):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p...3OwFJ4bId0fqllISkJ2yC9CH1bKhbzcPE1upUB-w-snhA
I got lots more. I do think there should have been a bigger concentration near the head of the bed - but I think that may involve using different forensic markers, since LS obviously wiped it down.
Wipe down marks need to be studied and marked separately (sometimes using two different or three different chemicals - I think they mention that in the AA):
(Do not look if squeamish - here's a wipe stain
https://www.ifscolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20-Wipe-pattern-300x204.jpg
Without cleaning, we would expect a gunshot wound to the head, next to a wall, to look something like this:
(WARNING: more blood!)
https://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/iStock-157286442.jpg
Having posted all that, and having fake blood in my lab and having had lots of fun with students pretending to be stabbed, which is easier to stage with stage knives than guns are - no way the college allows undergrads to have pretend guns)...and knowing some experts who testify in court on these matters...
Even the experts (especially when honest, when they are talking behind the scenes) say it's hard to interpret. This is a bit like that "owl did it" case back east.
The blood spatter in that case was easier to interpret, in some ways.
It's a fairly large pattern of scattered blood. I went with "not bludgeoning" because she would have had to have superhuman strength to do that and the mattress would have absorbed so much of the blow.
Just like everything else about this case, I bet the forensic experts will be able to replicate the pattern - but not on their first few attempts.
Too symmetrical to be stabbing with cast-off from the hand/blade (all kinds of other things say it's not stabbing - but in this case, she's so weird, it's hard to know for sure).
If stabbing (in the head), then she's way more psychotic IMO than she appears from all her other actions.