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Pretty Lies And Alibis

RECAP: Brendan Banfield Trial - Day 5: Afternoon Testimony - Digital Forensics Detective On Stand

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The blood spatter expert finishes up. Brendan Miller, the forensic investigator who thought Christine was in control of her devices, briefly takes the stand before being recalled later on. PI starts testimony begins before the defense recalls Brendan Miller.

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0:00.0

Welcome to pretty lies and alibis. Let's seek the truth and travel the long road to justice together.

0:08.6

Whatcha know, alibiers. Welcome to the second part of the recap of day five in the Brendan Banfield trial.

0:16.2

After lunch, still on the stand, was Leanne Singley. She's the one that works with the bloodstain

0:21.6

pattern analysis. They start off talking about Joe's position on the ground, and she disagreed with

0:28.3

the Commonwealth's expert that that blood was deposited on Joe's arm while he was laying on the

0:34.3

ground. Just before lunch, she said that due to the fact that his arm hair had impacted the way the

0:40.3

blood landed, she could not tell what position he was in when that was deposited.

0:45.9

She explains a drip stain is formed by gravity alone.

0:49.7

And on top of that, if you have something circular, it's not automatically a drip stain stain when blood is going through the air in an arc shape.

0:58.2

And if it doesn't hit anything, when it falls to the ground perpendicular, it's still going to look circular.

1:04.1

But because we did not have a lot of these features, that's why she didn't do her classification.

1:10.5

And to say that they're coming from above

1:13.0

and that they are drip stains is part of the problem. She said just because his arm was this way

1:18.3

when he was found, his arm could have been in a different position when that blood was deposited.

1:23.4

For her to make a classification, she would look at the size, the location, the distribution, and the appearance of the stain to determine if it's a drip stain opposed to another kind of stain.

1:35.1

She would want to see something that is perfectly circular with scalloping around the edges and it has some size to it.

1:41.7

If it's tiny, she's going to classify it as something that came from a spatter as opposed to a

1:47.2

passive drop.

1:48.6

She's asked, in the absence of additional information, how do you resolve that?

1:53.1

They start off at bloodstains and then spatter, then cast off, then impact.

1:58.6

If they don't have the features to meet each level, like in this case, she would

2:03.4

just say they're bloodstains and in her report she described them as being irregularly shaped

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