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Within a certain range and not in excess of a certain fall height, yes you can. Blood spatter is effected by the relative velocity of the impacting object (in this case the victim) and the target (in this case the impact surface). The diameter of the blood spatter pattern from the point of impact can yield the impact velocity and therefore the fall distance.

Because we know the impact velocity, and our high school physics classes teach us the rate of acceleration of a falling body through a medium (in this case the atmosphere), we can match the impact velocity with the velocity achieved via gravitational acceleration (i.e falling), compare the two, and arrive at the distance a body would have to fall in order to achieve relative impact velocity that would make the observed splatter pattern.

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