Spicywisdom
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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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Freyja Tamlin
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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.
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