Detailed entries (50)
LAPD Item 47, the first Bundy walkway blood drop and the drop described as closest to the bodies, collected on June 13, 1994 and represented by swatch material. Records discuss its custody, packaging, defense transfers, degradation considerations, and testing; reported PCR results were described as consistent with Simpson and excluding both victims, while cross-examination and closing argument disputed the relationship between a slot-blot result detecting no human DNA and reported profile frequencies.
LAPD Item 50 / DNA 8, a blood drop or stain collected from the Bundy walkway near the rear gate and associated with photo ID 115. Testimony described the sample as severely degraded with no detectable yield-gel pattern; reported PCR findings included types 1.1 and 1.2, consistency with Simpson, exclusion of both victims, and a negative substrate control. The extent of remaining swatch material transferred to the defense was disputed.
Blood-drop stain collected on the driveway behind the Bundy condo, variously described in testimony as the last driveway stain, the farthest walkway stain, and the drop closest to the alleyway; it was also designated DOJ 55-A. Testimony addressed its divided swatches, DNA quantity and degradation, DQ-Alpha, PCR, and RFLP testing, including reported results matching or not excluding Simpson and excluding the victims; Neufeld and Gerdes raised qualified methodology and possible cross-contamination interpretations.
Five Bundy walkway blood-drop samples and resulting swatches repeatedly identified as Items 47, 48, 49, 50, and 52. Sources address their observation, collection, photo-ID mapping, handling, controls, degradation, retesting, and DNA analysis; witnesses reported testing results, while counsel separately characterized the results and their significance in opening and closing arguments.
Item 42, blood collected from concrete near the base of the first step and described in other sources as from the pool or area beneath or around Nicole Brown Simpson's body at Bundy. Documented as blood-stain photograph ID 107, it was used as a possible female-victim exemplar. Testimony reported inconclusive EAP findings, while civil closing argument attributed the blood to Ms. Brown and discussed wet transfer involving the item.
LAPD Item 48, a Bundy walkway blood drop associated with photo item 113. Sources record its processing date, extraction handling, negative substrate control, and reported DQ-Alpha type 1.1, 1.2; witnesses described results as consistent across laboratories and with the Simpson reference.
Red-stained swatches collected from shoeprints on the Bundy walkway. Testimony described Item 56's PCR polymarker result as consistent with Nicole Brown, excluding Simpson and Goldman, while its DQ-Alpha result was inconclusive; the curated LAPD row described the print as consistent with size 12 Bruno Magli shoes.
Item 47, the bindle containing swatches from a Bundy blood drop and bearing transfer stains or imprints. Dr. Henry Lee described wet transfers as a scientific fact and maintained that something was wrong, while agreeing under a hypothetical that the blood's identity theoretically would not change and noting that degradation could make a DNA pattern unreadable. Other proceedings discussed an asserted conflict with testimony that the swatches were dry, connected the stains to a defense planting theory, and recorded the prosecution's challenge to that theory and to an allegation that one imprint did not match a swatch.
Defendants' Exhibit 67, a diagram or display board titled “Blood Drops at Bundy, June 13, 1994,” showing walkway blood-drop locations, distances, shoe-print locations, and photo identification numbers 112–117.
Bundy walkway blood stains grouped as LAPD Items 47–50, discussed in testimony concerning delayed substrate-control delivery, bacterial degradation in some Bundy samples, and reported low DNA yields.
Item 49, a blood drop collected from the trail or walkway at 875 South Bundy Drive and associated with photo card or photo ID 114. Sources describe PCR, conventional serology, and contemplated RFLP testing; testimony reported various typing observations and population-frequency interpretations, including a negative typing result in one examination, while Marcia Clark advanced a PGM-based interpretation in closing argument.
Item 41, blood collected from a tree stump in the fenced area north of the Bundy walkway and documented as blood-stain photograph ID 106. It was used as a potential Ronald Goldman exemplar pending actual reference samples; PCR testing produced no result, and the substrate control was negative.
Deliberate grouping of Bundy walkway and driveway blood-drop Items 47, 48, 50, and 52. Sources discuss confirmed D1S80 results, a combined DOJ and Cellmark PCR-frequency range, and a hypothetical in which each item had multiple swatches.
Bundy crime-scene blood-drop swatches grouped as Items 48, 50, and 52, discussed during testimony concerning contamination and chain of custody and in closing argument, where counsel asserted that Yamauchi tested them after collection and obtained results matching Simpson.
Document regarding bloodstains on an evidence bag related to Item 47.
Documentation boards tracing the chain of custody and handling of the blood drop collected from the Bundy walkway, originally Item 47 / Item 112.
Photograph of the rear stairway at Bundy showing evidence card 115 (item 50) near the back gate.
Photograph of five swatches from LAPD item 47 (purported Bundy drop stains), taken by Dr. Blake when samples were opened at Cellmark with Dr. Lee present.
Photograph of one of the Bundy blood drops
Board tracing the history of Item 47 through crime-scene photographs and Fung and Mazzola collection notes.
Board continuing the history of Item 47 with Yamauchi's July 21 serology notes and a photograph of five swatches Lee took at Cellmark on July 27, 1994.
Board concerning Item 47 wet transfers, with Cellmark and DOJ swatch photographs showing wet-transfer patterns on the bindle.
Two-page Gary Sims DOJ notes regarding Item 47 observations
Photographs and telestrator printouts of wet-transfer imprints inside the Item 47 bindle, including parallelogram, square, and double-triangle shapes.
Board showing the Item 47 bindle as received in New Haven on March 9, 1995, with one swatch remaining and visible wet transfers.
Crime-scene photograph showing blood drops near an evidence envelope on the Bundy walkway; the witness marked the area with a blue circle.
Coin envelope containing a bindle from the first blood drop on the Bundy trail.
Original coin envelopes for blood drops collected at the Bundy crime scene.
In opening statement, counsel asserted that the item 112 blood drops at 875 South Bundy matched the defendant.
In opening statement, counsel asserted that this Bundy blood drop matched the defendant.
In opening statement, counsel asserted that this Bundy blood drop matched the defendant.
In opening statement, counsel asserted that this Bundy blood drop matched the defendant.
In opening statement, counsel asserted that this Bundy blood drop matched the defendant.
Photograph of the front gate at Bundy showing a blood spot
Photograph of blood stain at Bundy taken June 13th
Crime scene photographs showing blood drops marked with photo ID numbers 115 and 117, not on the rear gate.
Crime scene photograph showing item 112, identified as a blood drop.
Photographs of photo ID card no. 112 / item 47 at the Bundy scene.
Photograph of a blood drop labeled 115 at a different location on the scene.
Photographs of blood drops on the rear driveway
Photograph of item 52
LAPD Item 52, a Bundy driveway blood stain documented as photograph ID 117 together with its pinkish substrate control. Testimony compared DQ-Alpha and RFLP testing, reported 1.1 and 1.2 results with a negative substrate control, and noted a 1.3 trace that the DOJ characterized as an artifact or not real.
Blood drops or a blood trail described as lying left of the bloody shoeprints at Bundy; plaintiff's counsel described the drops as consistent with a left-hand injury, while Marcia Clark identified the trail in closing argument as the defendant's blood.
A deliberate grouping of Bundy-scene blood samples Items 41 and 42, collected near the male victim's tree-stump area and the female victim's location by the stairs. Testimony described the samples, also referenced as scene samples 106 and 107, as substitutes rather than true exemplars.
Blood found at Bundy, discussed in Ms. Fischman's deposition as media-reported evidence identified as O.J. Simpson's.
Bundy walkway blood-drop Items 48, 49, and 50, reported in criminal and civil testimony to have PCR results identical to Item 47; the witnesses described the results as including or matching Simpson and excluding Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
LAPD Item 78, a Bundy crime-scene blood drop identified as coming from Ronald Goldman's boot. Testimony addressed its suitability for RFLP testing and its entry on a Bundy results board.
Blood drops at the Bundy crime scene, discussed during closing argument.
Blood drop collected from the Bundy crime-scene walkway as LAPD Item 51.
Partial stride analysis report on blood drops along the Bundy walkway.
Additional references (37)
Brief references from transcripts that don't warrant an individual page. Each has a single source or is mentioned only in passing.
- Blood drop at the front door and westbound blood drops on the walkway
- Blood drops along path from front to rear gate
- Blood drops along the walkway
- Blood drops on walkway at 875 South Bundy
- Blood on Nicole Brown Simpson's thigh — Blood on Nicole Brown Simpson's thigh, characterized by Johnnie Cochran during his criminal opening statement as Type B and as consistent with a third-party perpetrator.
- Blood swatches dried in glass test tubes on June 13–14, 1994 — Blood swatches were placed in glass test tubes for drying on the night of June 13–14, 1994.
- Blood trail from Nicole's body to the Bundy sidewalk, with southbound paw prints — Blood trail running from Nicole's body through the walkway grout to the sidewalk, including paw prints heading south on Bundy.
- Blood, Footprint, and Canine-Track Observations at Bundy — A trial reference to blood described as trampled by a dog, footprints leading toward the back, and dog tracks on the Bundy sidewalk. F. Lee Bailey discussed the observations as support for his argument that the killer exited through the back gate.
- Bloody footprints and blood drops on the side walkway toward the rear of the house — Bloody footprints and blood drops observed on the side walkway heading toward the rear of the house.
- Bundy blood drop samples items 47-52, remaining swatches available for retesting
- Bundy blood drop swatches (items 117, 115, 114, 112 — from driveway and walkway)
- Bundy blood drops — DNA analysis discussed by Scheck
- Bundy blood drops (photographic series)
- Bundy blood drops discussed in low-quantity testing context — Bundy blood drops were discussed in relation to low nanogram quantities and the applicable testing threshold.
- Bundy blood swatches, photo IDs 112–117 — Overnight storage in an unlocked cabinet — Blood swatches from Bundy bearing photo IDs 112–117 were placed in test tubes overnight on June 13–14 in an unlocked cabinet.
- Bundy blood-drop samples split among multiple laboratories — Testimony concerning Bundy blood-drop samples being split and sent to multiple laboratories.
- Bundy Blood-Swatch Bindles — Items 52, 49, 50, 48, 47, 41 and 42 — Blood swatches identified as Bundy walkway items 52, 49, 50, 48, 47, 41 and 42, held in stain and substrate-control bindles with varying swatch counts.
- Bundy Cloth Swatches — Items 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 41, 42, and 17 — Group of cloth swatches identified as Items 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 41, 42, and 17 from the Bundy crime scene, sampled on June 14 and tested by DQ Alpha.
- Bundy drop bindles — swatches sent to Sims from LAPD
- Bundy walkway blood drops characterized during cross-examination as round — During cross-examination, F. Lee Bailey characterized the Bundy walkway blood drops as round and suggested that they reflected stationary dripping rather than running motion.
- Coin Envelopes of Blood Swatches — Items 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 41 and 42 — Coin envelopes containing blood swatches identified as evidence items 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 41 and 42, sampled between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. on June 14, 1994, with custody transferred to Dennis Fung after sampling.
- Gary Sims / DOJ notes on wet transfer in Item 47 bindles — Gary Sims / DOJ notes on wet transfer observed when opening Item 47 bindles (Item 360A referenced).
- Item 50 — substrate swab from the area of the Bundy back gate, collected June 13 — Item 50 — substrate swab from the area of the Bundy back gate, collected June 13th
- Item 51 — Bundy Front-Gate Substrate — Item 51, a front-gate substrate collected June 13. During Sims's examination, it was discussed as exhibiting a bacterial-degradation pattern.
- Item 51 — stain from north side of south fence, closest to Nicole Brown's body
- Item 57 — Blood stain east of Nicole Brown Simpson's body — Item 57 was described as a blood stain east of where Nicole Brown Simpson's body was found; its EAP result was inconclusive, and its PGM subtype was reported as 1-plus.
- Item no. 49 — Bundy walkway stain substrate control
- Items 47, 48, 49 — stains along north walkway and steps
- Items 48, 49, 50, 52 — Bundy crime scene blood swatches
- Items 49 and 50 (evidence sent to Cellmark for testing)
- Items 49 and 52 — Bundy Walkway Blood Drops — Gary Sims discussed Items 49 and 52 as Bundy walkway drops received from Cellmark on October 13, 1994.
- Kelly's opening-statement attribution of Bundy blood drops to Simpson — In opening statement, Kelly attributed the blood drops to Simpson leaving the Bundy scene.
- LAPD Item 56: Shoeprint at Bundy — LAPD item 56, identified in testimony as a shoeprint at Bundy and discussed as having been typed to Nicole Brown, distinguishing it from drops described as Simpson-consistent.
- Matheson's Laboratory Report Concerning Item 49 — Greg Matheson's laboratory report, referenced during testimony concerning inconclusive results for item 49.
- Photo of seven Bundy walkway blood drops discussed in closing argument — In closing argument, counsel described the photograph as showing seven walkway blood drops and alleged that the prosecution had cropped them out during the criminal trial.
- Substrate Controls for Bundy Items 48 and 50 and Bronco Item 29 — Compound grouping of substrate controls for Bundy walkway items 48 and 50 and Bronco steering-wheel item 29, described from Gary Sims's notes to establish the range of substrate-control appearances.
- Substrate controls taken beside Bundy bloodstains — Marcia Clark asserted in closing argument that controls taken beside every Bundy bloodstain tested negative, using that assertion to argue against contamination.