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Spicywisdom
Spicywisdom

Jan-25-2006 11:58

Hi there,
If one of my detective's skills is footprint analysis and I find, while searching the crime scene, the footprint of for instance a heavy person (so it says...) am I a hundred per cent sure that the culprit is heavy? In other words, is the footprint analysis skill completely reliable?
I had a case where I knew the murderer was heavy and right handed, only one of the suspects corresponded to that profile and when I accused him, it appeared I was wrong and that the real murderer was slim and right handed. I have the habit not to check alibis of suspects who do not match the profile I'm given through evidence. Wrong habit?

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reda
reda
Well-Connected

Jan-26-2006 04:35

Shanty - I think you are confusing things a bit. All evidence is reliable!
But every piece of evidence will belong to someone else. Only one of those would be the killer.
So in the example Spicywisdom gave above She said she was looking for a right handed and heavy person.
There is the problem.
Spicywisdom - You should look at all the suspects who are right handed and have fake/no alibi and also all the suspects who are heavy and have fake/no alibi.
So a slim man could still be the killer if he is right handed.
And a left handed heavy suspect could also have done it.
Does that help?

Freyja Tamlin
Freyja Tamlin

Jan-26-2006 12:13

Since this is a newbie thread, I'd like to point out that if you don't have both thread and hair analysis you can't be sure that you have all of the evidence! You may have a note written by a lefty, but your right handed suspects can't be eliminated because there may be threads and hairs that point to them... that you lack the skill to find.

Reda has described a wonderful strategy for using PE, one that I use all of the time. You can use it to quickly eliminate suspects while wasting minimal questions... but it's useless if there is missing evidence.

Spicywisdom
Spicywisdom

Jan-26-2006 14:25

Thanks everybody, your answers have been more than useful

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Jan-27-2006 06:28

Good point Freya! I forgot about that! Thread and Hair were my first skills :P

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