to a spatter event. >> on dr. hamilton's shoes were tiny blood droplets, almost invisible to the naked eye. these were suspicious, not only the shape, but the angle at which the blood landed on the shoes. >> there was some coming down on the toe from above 40, 50 degrees. and there's no possible way that someone had lifted mrs. hamilton's head, dropped her head down, and created additional spatter, and somehow dr. hamilton's shoes were exposed to that. you could not explain it from that. >> the blood on dr. hamilton's shoes were caused by medium-impact splatter, the kind resulted from a beating. tom bevel, a blood spatter expert hired by dr. hamilton, agreed with gardner's assessment. >> the spatter places the shoe within an area capable of receiving spatter, and the spatter is being generated by