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Paul L. Kirk

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American criminalist who pioneered bloodstain pattern analysis, providing evidence in the Sam Sheppard case that contributed to a reversal of conviction more than a decade after the crime.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1902 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
1970 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Colorado Springs, Colorado 2
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
Built academic criminalistics in the United States, leading the criminalistics program at the University of California, Berkeley. 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
Fire Investigation (1969) 2
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Fire Investigation (1969)
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