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The blood shed by eight Toronto Bandidos bikers gave clues to how they died.
David Sibley, a blood stain pattern analyst from the Ontario Provincial Police, was given the task to look at how blood pooled, dripped, flew and stained the vehicles where the dead men were found more than three years ago.
Yesterday, Sibley shared with the Superior Court jury at the Bandidos trial his conclusions from his examinations of the vehicles and the barn at Wayne Kellestine's farm where the men last gathered.
The jury reviewed grisly crime scene photos showing the men as they were found on April 8, 2006, in vehicles along Stafford Line in Elgin County.
Sibley discussed the direction the blood travelled after each man was shot and how it pooled around them.
Among his conclusions:
Most of the men were seated upright in the vehicles before they were shot. Paul Sinopoli was lying down in the back hatch of an Infiniti SUV.
Luis (Chopper) Raposo's body changed position several times, based on the flow pattern on his blood. The jury has heard Raposo was shot first inside the barn.
Jamie Flanz, found shot twice in the head in a Pontiac Grand Prix, had blood on his shoes. The Crown's star witness, a former Winnipeg Bandido known as M.H., has testified Flanz was one of the men ordered to carry Raposo's body, wrapped in a carpet, to the back of Raposo's Volkswagen Golf.
The "back spatter" blood pattern - blood that travels back to the source of force -- was in front of Flanz who was seated in the rear of the car.
A footprint with blood from Frank Salerno was found in the barn.
Blood drops from Raposo were in the vestibule of the barn.
A transfer stain of Michael Trotta's blood -- evidence that a wet bloody object touched another object -- was found on a pillar in the barn.
In cross-examination, defence lawyer Gordon Cudmore, who represents Michael Sandham, pointed out none of Flanz's blood was on the rear door panel of the Grand Prix.
M.H. testified Sandham fired the first shot into Flanz through the rear window.
Cudmore pointed out there was blood spatter on the centre console. Sibley said that he had no way of knowing Flanz's position in the car, except that he was seated based on the blood trail on his face.
The focus of defence lawyer Tony Bryant, who represents Marcelo Aravena, was about George (Crash) Kriarakis.
M.H. testified he saw Kriarakis's body in the Superior Towing tow truck before he watched Wayne Kellestine shoot George (Pony) Jessome as he was seated in the truck's rear seat.
But Kriarakis's body was found in the front driver's seat of Raposo's Golf.
Kriarakis, who weighed 238 pounds, had seven gunshot wounds -- four to the head and three to the torso.
But none of his blood was found in the tow truck and there has been no evidence that any of Jessome's blood was on Kriarakis.
Sibley testified through questions from assistant Crown attorney Fraser Kelly, blood in the car from Kriarakis would have come from his head wounds.
He would not expect "back spatter" to come from abdominal wounds because they are penetrating wounds covered with clothing that would stop any spatter from happening.
The trial continues today.
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THE DEAD
George Jessome, 52; George Kriarakis, 28; John Muscedere, 48; Luis Raposo, 41; Frank Salerno, 43; Paul Sinopoli, 30; Jamie Flanz, 37; and Michael Trotta, 31.
THE ACCUSED
Wayne Kellestine, 60, and Frank Mather, 35, of Dutton-Dunwich; Brett Gardiner, 25, of no fixed address; and Michael Sandham, 39, Marcelo Aravena, 33, and Dwight Mushey, 41, of Winnipeg have all pleaded not guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder.