Tom Bevel
President of Bevel, Gardner & Associates, a forensic education and consulting firm, and a retired Oklahoma City Police Department captain and bloodstain pattern analysis expert.
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Aug 3, 2026
Tom BevelGUEST
Numerous people, to include myself, examined that floor to try and find evidence of a knife drop.
Tom BevelGUEST
either even pointed straight down or falling on its handle or falling on its side or whatever.
Tom BevelGUEST
If it had as much blood on it as it was found, which it would have to, then it should have produced an outline of a knife or evidence of the knife dropping onto the floor.
Luigi MangioneHOST
The heavy line of blood near the tip of the blade told forensic experts something important about the killer.
Tom BevelGUEST
The only way that I am aware that you could get something coming off of the knife in that manner as we found it would be to have the knife in the hand of a person that is bleeding.