Fact 6: Two blood patterns don’t add up.

Too often, families are pushed aside as inconvenient grieving voices by the police, yet we know when something does not add up. As I shared in earlier blogs, the Guam Police Department failed to notify me of my son’s death, dismissed my concerns, and has continued to withhold information. That failure is what forced me to become my own investigator – a mother who had no choice but to learn and gather factual information in pursuit of justice for her son.

That effort led to more questions and most importantly, to a lack of evidence supporting GPD’s narrative. This next critical fact should have raised immediate red flags and warranted further investigation: there were two distinct blood patterns.

The standard in a death investigation is clear: investigators must thoroughly examine the body, the scene, and all available evidence in order to rule out homicide. Signs that a body was moved, a scene was staged, or that unexplained blood patterns appear in different locations are not minor details. They are red flags that require further examination.

In my son’s case, there were two distinct blood patterns.

The first blood pattern was found on my son’s white comforter, which was perfectly folded at the foot of his bed: a face-shaped bloodstain. The second blood pattern was located where Jaren was found lying supine on the floor at the opposite end of where the first blood pattern was formed, his head near the dresser, several feet beyond the foot of the bed, with his feet tucked beneath the bed frame. 

Standard forensic procedures, such as those outlined by Vernon Geberth in Practical Homicide Investigation, explain that when a bloodstain doesn’t correspond to the position of the body, it constitutes a major red flag. These “internal inconsistencies,” as Geberth calls them, are often the number one indicator of a staged scene. When blood evidence does not align with the body’s position, investigators are expected to treat the case as a potential homicide.

Although this information is hearsay, a witness reported being permitted to enter an active crime scene during the investigation, and upon arrival, heard a first-responding officer tell another officer that the scene did not look right. This observation aligns with the physical inconsistencies present in the room.

Here, the evidence did not align. The blood on the comforter indicated that Jaren’s face pressed against it, yet he was found supine in a different area on the floor. For a suicide to make physical sense, the wound, the blood, and the body must align. They did not. It would be highly unlikely, if not impossible, for Jaren to move himself into a different and complex position after sustaining a major cerebellar gunshot wound.

The blood-stained comforter from my son’s bed, never logged as evidence and later destroyed by a professional cleaning company, the presence of two distinct blood patterns, and the position in which Jaren was found all point to the same conclusion: his body was moved after the injury. The layout of the scene does not support a self-inflicted death.

The Physics That Cannot Be Ignored

• The “Stamp”: Forensic analysts refer to the facial pattern on my son’s comforter as a transfer-stained pattern. Unlike flying spatter, a transfer stain requires pressure and duration. It forms when skin is pressed against fabric with sustained, static contact. If Jaren had merely brushed the bed while falling, the blood would appear smeared or swiped. A facial stamp indicates his head rested on that comforter long enough for the blood to soak in. 

• The 180-Degree Flip: For the suicide narrative to be true, Jaren would have had to fall face-down on the foot of the bed to leave the print, then somehow flip himself over to land face-up, and then stretch out for his feet to be tucked under his bed.

• The Law of Inertia: A body at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an external force. If Jaren was instantly incapacitated, he had no internal force, no biological capacity, to move himself. Gravity alone does not tuck feet under the bed during a dead-drop fall. 

• The Void of Explanation: If investigators claim Jaren moved on his own, they must provide a biological mechanism to explain how. There is no documented case of someone suffering instantaneous central nervous system collapse who then performs a multi-step repositioning of their own body.

  
  

A Challenge to the Suicide Narrative

Forensic science is not opinion; it is the study of physical reality. The evidence in Jaren’s room describes a situation that cannot occur naturally. You cannot have a face-down transfer stain on a bed and a face-up body on the floor without an intervening force. You cannot have a dead-drop fall that tucks the feet neatly under the bed frame.

I am not asking for speculation. The laws of physics are fundamental to investigations; they allow investigators to reconstruct events, evaluate witness accounts, and rule out scenarios that are physically impossible, turning scattered evidence into scientifically reliable conclusions. 

This case must be reopened and investigated. My son mattered. Jaren deserves a truth that aligns with reality, not one that is convenient to close a file.