Even dried blood gives off a sheen when reflecting light from a camera's flash gun. An original unsaturated image of SC's neck wounds...
You can't trust any of these images. They all have to be dismissed as fake.
Carol ann lee is very clear in her HBO podcast that in the actual original photos, the blood is dark and visibly cracked.
In the Sky3 documentary around 2004, Giovanni Di Stefano talks about the fake blood images (He was the first 'lawyer' to publish these images, therefore he is probably responsible for faking them)....What he says is that the jury, during the original court case in 1986, was shown 'faked images' showing the blood to be dark and dry.
So CAL and GDS are saying similar things, that there are two sets of images for SC's neck wounds.
So the only way to resolve this is to see the original negatives on a lightbox showing the original. Failing that, you would need to see both print versions that both CAL and GDS confirm exists.
Until then, all images of wet looking blood have to be assumed to be fake.
The other way to resolve this is to look at the reputations of CAL and GDS.
GDS is a career criminal who has spent decades going around the world pretending to be a lawyer. He literally, lies for a living. It would be very easy for him to have had the photos doctored in order to create the false narrative that his client demanded.
CAL is a respected author with no history of criminality.
GDS says that the original dark, cracked blood images are the fake images, but there was no technology in 1985/1986 to fake images like that to any degree of believability. The police would have to have gone to a Hollywood standard studio to get the work done. In other words, it didn't happen.
Photoshop didn't come out until 1990, and it wasn't sophisticated enough to turn wet blood images into dried, cracked blood images (in order to fool the jury, which GDS claims). You are looking at a good 4 or 5 years before Photoshop could do that easily (but even then, only with a highly skilled photoshopper, and a lot of time).
Therefore all wet blood (the ones without the cracking) images are fake. Yes they look very real, but that is what photoshop does. I've been creating composite landscape images in Photoshop for over 15 years (as a hobby) and I know the software like the back of my hand.
In 2005 you could easily, with a skilled photoshopper, fake images like these so that no human on earth could look at it and tell the difference.