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I'm Jim Axelrod, 48 Hours. What you see here is our setup for a blood spatter demonstration. Blood spatter is at the
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heart of the case against Dr. Robert Nulander, a prominent doctor accused of murdering his wife. Dr. Nulander said he
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found his wife Leslie in the shower of their home near Syracuse, New York in 2012. She was bleeding. Dr. Nulander
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told police he moved his injured wife into the bedroom to perform CPR. Newlander's defense attorney said
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Leslie's massive head injury was accidental, that she hit her head on this marble bench in the shower. But the
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prosecution says the story doesn't add up, mainly because of the blood spatter found on items on her nightstand and on
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the wall and ceiling to the right of her bed. Karen Green, a forensic scientist for the prosecution, says these specks
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of blood were caused by blows. So, I'm going to pour some of our artificial blood here into my hand, and I'm going
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to punch it. And she showed us how blood travels on impact. You can see where we set up our
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cameras to record this experiment. We have slowed down the footage so you can see the blood
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travel. The prosecution theory is Dr. Nulander beat his wife in the bedroom causing this blood spatter and then
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delivered the fatal blow in the shower to make it look like an accident. But the defense suggests there may be more
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innocent reasons for the blood spatter. Clearly for both sides, the story of what happened to Leslie Newlander that
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terrible morning is written in blood.