Richland Police Get ‘Dexter’ Style Training

Back in the days of the old west, suspected murderers were dealt with swiftly, and with a minimum of evidence. A dead body and a likely suspect were pretty much all that was necessary.

These days, you can't just round up a posse and jump on the trail after the bad guys. Besides, murderers in large populations don't usually leave an obvious trail.

In recent years, shows like Forensic Files and CSI have shown how the smallest fiber or the tiniest blood drop can point investigators in the right direction and end up solving near-impossible cases. The perfect murder is becoming a thing of the past.

In the TV series Dexter, blood spatter analysis came to the forefront for everybody's favorite serial killer (he only killed bad guys...mostly), not always in solving crimes, but in making sure you don't get caught.

Richland Police recently went through some very cool blood spatter training. This is important even for first responders so they don't contaminate a blood-stained scene as well as for those who will spend hours investigating and documenting the splatter patterns. A crime scene can often be completely recreated just by accurately analyzing every detail of blood spatter.