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alljackedup
alljackedup
Old Shoe

Jun-27-2006 20:14

I have a question..

I found a piece of hair AND a threatening note at the crime scene and I narrowed it down to 2 suspects.. I analyzed them with the barber and the banker and the evidence did not match to the 2 suspects... is that possible? Like maybe there would have been some threads at the scene that I couldn't pick up without the skill?


Ok that was confusing, but does anyone understand what I'm trying to say? Thanks!! :-)

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alljackedup
alljackedup
Old Shoe

Jun-27-2006 21:42

Thanks, that helped alot :-)

shadowblack
shadowblack

Jun-28-2006 02:02

Are you sure your list of suspects was complete? Perhaps you missed one suspect and he is the guilty one?

If you had a complete list of suspects, and you were playing at level Hard or higher, then it is possible that there was a thread you couldn't find. If the dificulty level of the case was below Hard, then you definitely found all the evidence.

Agent Andrew
Agent Andrew

Sep-24-2006 19:59

I was wondering myself, lets say that one finds curly hair; if that hair doesn't match any of the curly haired suspects, does that mean that the hair was put there by either the victim or some other source, I.E. does a curly haired evidence always mean a curly haired criminal?

sushi kitty
sushi kitty

Sep-24-2006 20:40

I think it is not possible to have a curly hair and it does not match any of the curly hair suspects.
so, Yes, curly hair evidence always means curly hair suspect

For people who are run into this situation:
1. Check that you have all your suspects. You can ask the fortune teller, for $20.
2. Make sure you are checking it against curly haired suspects with an alibi and curly haired suspects with no/fake alibi.
3. Make sure you did not accidently skip a curly haired suspect.

Christopher Leroy
Christopher Leroy
Old Shoe

Sep-24-2006 22:23

To help clarify a bit what sushi was saying...

Andrew, a curly hair does NOT imply a curly criminal. There is a semantic difference here, between "criminal" and "suspect". Each piece of physical evidence you find will definitely match up to one suspect in your case, whether you discover them or not. However, only 1 of your pieces of physical evidence will match a suspect with a fake/no alibi. So it is entirely possible that you can find a female thread, curly hair, and slim footprint (with one other piece of evidence) and the killer is a heavy man with straight hair... so long as he matched that last piece of physical evidence.

***worries he just made things real confusing and goes back to bed***

Anita Williams
Anita Williams

Sep-25-2006 22:24

To answer your question, alljackedup, if I'm understanding it correctly... yes, it's possible to NOT find evidence that really is there. That being said, only one piece of evidence will belong to the killer. All other pieces will belong to innocent people. Therefore, if you've found all the evidence at the scene, and you confirm that none of them belongs to a certain person, that person can be assumed innocent, since the killer always leaves one piece of evidence at the scene.

Here's a chart so you know how many pieces of evidence you should be finding based on difficulty:

Easy -- 2
Intermediate -- 2
Hard -- 3
Really Hard -- 3
Really Really Hard -- 3
Incredibly Hard and above -- 4

If you don't find that number of pieces of evidence at your crime scene, you haven't found all the pieces, so you can't really use the above method for ruling out suspects. You still might make a lucky guess though, and find out that a piece you did find belongs to a suspect. :P

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Sep-25-2006 23:34

Anita's numbers are very good benchmarks for the amount of evidence at a crime scene, but those are the maximum amounts possible for those levels... due to the random nature of cases, it is possible to have 1 less than the listed number, with the exception that there will always be at least 2 pieces of evidence.

In other words, it is entirely possible for an AI case to only have 3 pieces of evidence, but never 2 and never more than 4.

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