MIDDLETOWN — Blood splatter, a boot print and a broken two ... the warrant said. The tread pattern and wear on the boot soles matched the print from the wipes in the women's restroom, police ...

Discussions of evidence found in blood-spatter patterns and in the DNA of blood samples became standard, if not appetizing, dinner-table talk, and armchair criminalists second-guessed officials ...

An interim complaint on the incident at Doris Thompson Park, where a man was found dead at the scene, reveals that another man, Daniel Webster, was arrested on suspicion of murdering the victim.