Hi scipio, as blood dries it cracks and flakes, 'blob of jam' sounds like a description from someone's imagination of what they thought it may look like, all I'm saying.
The statements regarding the whole situation were questionable imo. I am not claiming this proves innocence but questioning this particular event.
How thick blood is and where it is determines what happens to it. Blood that is on a body is going to crack as will blood on something that moves. Blood that dries on a solid object where no movement is occurring will be able to dry in different shapes depending on the quantity of such blood.
A blob means a small amount of something. The moderator's hole is not that large. Blood right inside that hole will naturally be a small amount and some would call that a blob. Did you ever see Jelly that dried outside of a container? It can and does dry in small amounts that are not perfectly flat against the jar. Ann Eaton never claimed it looked wet. People who don't want to believe the evidence and want to find a way to assert the blood was planted are trying to suggest she said it was wet at the time it was found but she didn't say that. In some instance blood takes a very long time to dry totally mind you. On cloth it can take more than a day to be fully dry. Blood also changes colors differently on some materials than others.
The blood the family saw in the opening is the blood that Howard used to test whether the blood was human. It was apparently one of the largest blood deposits even though it was only the size of a matchhead. Sadly it wasn't used for typing instead because it would have been large enough and close enough to the murders to get a good the AK reading. Furthermore since it was blocking the opening it presumably would have been from the last victim the moderator was used on. Lincoln found quite a bit of microscopic material where the "blob" had been and determined it was group A blood but could not get an AK reading because his testing was in 1986 and it was still only microscopic traces not the nice sample Howard used.
The blood extended well beyond the inside threads though. Blood got to the 8th baffle as confirmed by defense expert Lincoln. Trying to claim the family planted blood goes out the window since the family would not have known drawback would extend far and know to plant it so far let alone figure out how to plant it that far. Nor did they know Sheila had a wound which would have resulted in drawback and if they did know that and did know the moderator wasn't used they would know blood would be in the rifle and it would expose their planting of evidence. hey wanted police to have all the items found in the closet but police only would take the moderator at first. A month later they finally agreed to take the bullets and the scope. then after that they finally agreed to take the shotgun shells. The family wanted police to have everything firearm related from WHF not just the moderator.