helped the team understand how this crime unfolded. what s the first thing you saw when you came into the room? the first thing i saw was what s called an impact pattern right here on this wall that we ve sort of recreated with stickers today. reporter: this is blood spatter? correct. reporter: smith, a bloodstain pattern analyst and crime scene expert, followed the trail of kim s blood in the bedroom, speck by speck, using string and 3-d diagrams. she believed kim had just gotten out of bed when her attacker barged in. and when the autopsy was completed, we found that her nose had been damaged. so to me that meant that it was a sucker punch. reporter: so where would she have been standing exactly to create this spatter? right about here. reporter: and then something, would have, you believe, hit her in the face. right. probably in the nose. since it bleeds very heavily. quickly, your eyes water. you can t see. it s very painful and normally when somebody s punched in
shot herself. and then partially released the gun magazine. the defense hired a crime scene expert to make his video. demonstrating how they believed it could be done. let the magazine released. but when it came to court to do the same demonstration in person, he failed. if you work the trigger, and get around to the magazine. sometimes i, can sometimes i can t. sometimes you hit the magazine released, after you fire a gun. but today i can t! there are smiles on your faces when that happens. i m sure there were! did you think that was a pivotal moment of the trial? i did. because i ve handled the same handgun. my daughter was i have big hands. and, i cannot one handedly release the magazine. it just does not happen.
the investigators account had david camm square in the crosshairs. he came home from basketball and killed his family. they told david about physical evidence they collected. specks of blood, barely visible to the naked eye, on the bottom of the t-shirt he wore. a crime scene expert already told him the husband and father did it.
A KwaZulu-Natal forensic crime scene expert has recalled his hellish assault at the hands of panga-wielding assailants while trying to protect an electrical substation in Northdale, Pietermaritzburg, two weeks ago.
there is going to be . a . trail of where he is, at every moment. i have to tell, you he is not a criminal mastermind. that still left the question of how tera could have shot herself. and then, partially release the gun magazine. the defense hired a crime scene expert to man this video, demonstrating how they believed it could be done. well, the magazine is released. but when he came to court to do the same demonstration in person, he failed. all right, the gun is covered, you pull the trigger, and you get around to release the magazine. sometimes i can, and sometimes i can. sometimes, you can get the magazine release, but when i fire again today, i can t. there were smiles on your faces when that happened. yes, there were. did you think that was a pivotal moment in the trial? i did, because i handled the